Welcome to the Voluntary Initiative IPM Plan for farmers who primarily grow grassland

This tool is split into 2 sections:

The terms ‘PPPs’ or ‘Plant Protection Products’ here refers to herbicides.

For more information about grassland weed control, read the Voluntary Initiative’s guide here.

Any information that you supply may be shared on an anonymous basis with third party organisations for research and policy development purposes. The NFU is the data controller and will process and use all personal data supplied in accordance with the NFU privacy policy.

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Completing an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan annually will help ensure that opportunities to improve productivity are not missed and also help meet the market demand to see more sustainable practices and reduced reliance on pesticides. It may also be necessary for compliance with farm assurance schemes.

Numbers completing the previous VI IPM Plan annually had risen to nearly 8,000 businesses, mainly in England and Wales. The structure of that plan meant that collating information to measure the industry’s progress in adopting IPM was impossible. In addition, it did not fully recognise that one key aspect of IPM is the need to evaluate regularly the approaches adopted. So, it has been revised in order that the increasing uptake of IPM can be demonstrated to the industry’s customers and to Government and its agencies.

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a whole farm approach to crop protection that maximises profitability while minimising environmental impact. Find out more about IPM.

The VI/NFU IPM Plan enables individual businesses to evaluate their crop protection practices and continue to improve and develop IPM planning and adoption. The plan allocates scores for the different components of IPM, enabling users to establish a baseline score and measure improvements year on year. Upon completion you will receive a tailored report of your plan.

The collated information collected through these plans may be used to help develop future policy. Data collected from individual businesses will not be published or allow businesses to be identified by inference.

The VI would like to thank Henry Creissen of SRUC for their help in compiling these IPM Plans, which are based on published peer reviewed work (Creissen et al., 2019; Creissen et al., 2021).