Production
Integrated Crop & Pest Management
Efficient, prioritised resource use across soil, water, nutrition and pest management — with compliance built in.
Course overview
In a world where inputs, water and labour are scarce, decisions must be prioritised. Integrated crop management is the discipline of spending resources where they change the outcome.
We train teams to scout accurately, act on thresholds, rotate modes of action, and combine biological, cultural and chemical tools into a defensible programme.
What participants will be able to do
- Design a scouting programme with reliable data capture
- Set and use economic thresholds instead of calendar spraying
- Integrate biologicals and beneficials into commercial programmes
- Manage resistance through mode-of-action rotation
- Improve soil health, nutrition planning and irrigation efficiency
Course modules
Monitoring
- • Scouting protocols
- • Pest and disease ID
- • Data recording
- • Thresholds
Intervention
- • Cultural controls
- • Biological controls
- • Selective chemistry
- • Resistance strategy
Resource efficiency
- • Soil management
- • Water conservation
- • Nutrition planning
- • Environmental management
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