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The industry currently channels funds into pest forecasts, risk models and monitoring services to give farmers a ‘heads up’ of what pest pressures might lie ahead.
Some pest monitoring services, such as the Rothamsted Insect Survey, which tracks aphid migrations using a UK-wide network of suction traps, stretch back decades.
However, AHDB has decided to review the relevance of such services as priorities change and new services appear.
IPM will only become more important over the coming years as the number of approved pesticides continues to fall and resistance among pests increases further – this survey presents a timely opportunity for farmers to have a say in its development.