Development of IPM for broad-acre cropping in Australia
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- Paul Horne delivers IPM training at a field day in Cowra, New South Wales
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- Jessica Page setting pitfall traps and shelter traps to sample invertebrates in cropping a paddock
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- Paul Horne monitoring an IPM cereal crop
Client: Grains Research and Development Corporation
Project delivery period: 2005-2008
The Grains Research and Development Council (GRDC) commissioned IPM Technologies to conduct a project to develop and implement IPM in broad-acre cropping in southern Australia. We worked with collaborating farmers and independent agronomists to demonstrate how IPM could work and how there was no need for routine application of broad-spectrum insecticides. The project was highly successful with adoption of IPM on whole farms by collaborating farmers and the further extension of the approach by collaborating agronomists.
