Integrated Pest Management survey

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This survey is designed to understand more about people's IPM strategies. The answers are anonymous and we will use the data to help identify what support might be needed to address any challenges with IPM.

1a. Your farm: first part of postcode e.g. GL7 *

1b. Your farm: area that you farm *

Below 40ha/100acres

Between 40ha/100acres and 100ha/250acres

Between 100ha/250acres and 200ha/500acres

Between 200ha/500acres and 400ha/1000acres

Between 400ha/1000acres and 600ha/1500acres

Over 600ha/1500acres

1c. Your farm: how would you describe your farm type? *

Arable

Horticulture

Grassland

Livestock

Mixed

1d. Your farm: which crops or horticultural products do you produce? *

Cereals

Sugar beet

Potatoes

Field vegetables

Legumes

Oilseeds

Protected edibles (crops under glass)

Top fruit

Soft fruit

Other:

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1e. Are you part of an accreditation scheme? If so, which one(s)? *

I am not part of any scheme

Organic (Soil Association)

Red Tractor

Fair to Nature

LEAF Marque

Conservation Grade (Jordan's)

Other:

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2a. Where do you get your crop protection advice from? *

I am not BASIS registered for Crop Protection but make my own decisions on the farm

I am registered with BASIS for Crop Protection so I make my own decisions

I am BASIS registered for Crop Protection but also work with my BASIS registered agronomist

I work with my BASIS registered agronomist and together we make crop protection decisions

I have a BASIS registered agronomist who makes most of the decisions

Other:

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2b. Where do you get your main integrated pest management advice from? *

My agronomist specialises in IPM so s/he makes most decisions

I have environmental advisers who advise on habitats that support IPM (e.g. beetle banks, strips for beneficial predators)

I talk to other farmers

I do my own research

Other:

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3a. Which pests, weeds and diseases have caused you the most issues over the last 5 years?

3b. What are the main challenges you face with crop protection on your farm?

3c. How have these challenges changed in the last five years?

3d. How do you think the costs of your crop protection compare over those five years?

4a. Does IPM offer you cost-effective solutions for crop protection on your farm? *

Not on my farm

Maybe - but not convinced

Sometimes

Often

Always

4b From the list below, which techniques are you currently using? *

Utilising pest forecasting tools

Utilising disease forecasting tools

Modifying seeding rates

Modifying row spacing

Sowing a trap crop to attract pests away from the main crop

Choosing varieties with resistance to pests

Choosing varieties with higher disease resistance

Widening crop rotation

Countryside Stewardship rotational option

Intercropping

Undersowing

Encouraging beneficial insects (such as pest predators) by providing the habitat they need

Using physical barriers to pests, e.g. mesh covers

Modifying weed management e.g. more selective weeding

Using bioinsecticides

Using biofungicides

Using insect sex pheromone traps

Improving soil health (e.g. by addition of organic matter) to grow a crop more resilient to pest and disease attack

Measuring soil health

Min-till

No-till

Other:

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4c. Please rank the following in terms of how important you feel they are to your crop protection strategy currently *

Monitoring pest thresholds

Agronomic methods (e.g crop selection, sowing density/timing, rotations)

Enhancing natural controls (e.g enhancing natural predators by habitat creation and improving soil health etc)

Mechanical (e.g weeding, traps)

Biopesticides

Chemical pesticides

First choice

Second choice

Third choice

Fourth choice

Fifth choice

Sixth choice

4d. Thinking about your IPM strategy, please tick all that apply in your experience: *

I don’t practice IPM

Saves me money

Leads to lower yields

Has no effect on yield or profitability

Improves profitability

Just a greenwashing exercise

Positive influence on environment

Enables clear reduction in pesticide use overall

Impact on pesticide use varies in different weather years

Requires long-term decisions (planning several years ahead)

Requires short-term decisions (planning for the year ahead)

Other:

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4e. Practicing IPM has resulted in

A reduction in overall pesticide use on my farm

An increase in overall pesticide use on my farm

No change in pesticide use

Clear selection

5a. How do you feel about… *

Impossible

Finding it difficult in practise

Happy to try

Find it works well

Not using anyway

Actively reducing herbicide use

Actively reducing fungicide use

Actively reducing insecticide use

5b. Any comments on your answers to 5a (optional)

6a. Do you feel more inclined to adopt IPM and reduce pesticide use now then previously? If yes, please rank the reasons why.

Impact on the environment

Impact on my/my workers’ health

Withdrawal of pesticide products from the market

Costs of purchasing pesticides

Direction of farming policies

Other (provide detail in question 6b)

First choice

Second choice

Third choice

Fourth choice

Fifth choice

Sixth choice

Clear selection

6b. If you answered "other" in 6a, please give details below.

7a. What would help you to introduce and trial more approaches to IPM on your farm? Please pick up to three that would be most useful. *

Agronomist support

Focused IPM training courses

Webinars

Podcasts

Videos

Online written information

Post-lockdown farm walks

Access to research trials

Take part in peer group trials of IPM approaches

Chatting to other farmers

Financial support for new kit

A wider landscape approach to IPM, such as via a group or cluster

Other:

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7b. What subjects would interest you the most to learn more about?

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