Farmers & growers needed to help develop new Sustainable Farming Incentive for Integrated Pest Management

ADAS, SRUC and the NFU are looking for farmers and growers to help guide the development of a new Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) Standard for Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This new Defra-funded project will develop tools and guidance to provide reliable information for farmers, growers and advisers making IPM decisions.

The SFI aims to help farmers manage land in a way that improves the sustainability of crop production. This new standard will focus on ways that combine, cultural, biological, physical and chemical tools to manage diseases, weeds and invertebrate pests in an environmentally sensitive way.