IPMWORKS Case Studies

As part of the Horizon 2020 project IPMWORKS,  growers across Europe were supported in carrying out two or more strategies within the same/comparable field, comparing a conventional strategy with an IPM based strategy as part of demonstration activities.

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Careful design of these comparisons enabled the collection of data on pest (weed, invertebrate or disease) levels to quantify the impact of IPM strategies across arable, outdoor vegetable, soft fruit, orchard and vineyard cropping systems. IPM strategies demonstrated include intercropping, companion cropping, use of pest thresholds and decision support systems, mechanical weeding, pheromone disruption, cover cropping and use of biologicals for disease control. Each comaprison case study is available on the IPMWORKS Resource Toolbox via the links below. 

 

Arable crops

IPMWORKS: Using a Bio-fortification strategy to control foliar disease in wheat in Scotland (Part 1)

IPMWORKS: Using a Bio-fortification strategy to control foliar disease in wheat in England (Part 2)

IPMWORKS: Using intercropping of lentils with durum wheat to reduce weed populations in Italy

IPMWORKS: Using companion cropping to reduce weeds and pest pressure in Oilseed Rape in Scotland

IPMWORKS: Using resistant potato varieties in management of potato late blight in Germany

IPMWORKS: Using DSS to improve canopy disease management in arable crops in Sweden

IPMWORKS: Using DSS to improve Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) management in England (Part 1)

IPMWORKS: Using DSS and variety to improve BYDV management in England (Part 2)

IPMWORKS: Using Decision Support System to improve BYDV management in the Netherlands

IPMWORKS: Using a mechanical weeder in spring barley in England

IPMWORKS: Using sulphur for disease control in wheat in England

IPMWORKS: Management of slugs in winter wheat in Spain

 

Vineyard

IPMWORKS: Using pheromone disruption to reduce grapevine moth damage in vineyards in Spain

IPMWORKS: Using cover crops to minimise herbicide use in vineyards in Greece

IPMWORKS: Using holistic approaches to manage green leafhopper in vineyards in Portugal

 

Soft Fruits

IPMWORKS: Using biocontrol for soft fruit root diseases in Finland

 

Orchard

IPMWORKS: Using rock powder in the management Olive fly in Italy

 

Outdoor vegetable

IPMWORKS: Mulching in zucchini, a comparison between polyethylene plastic and biodegradable mulch in Belgium

IPMWORKS: Using mechanical weeding in a crop of pod peas to reduce weed pressure in Finland

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