What the action involves
This action’s aim is that you:
- understand the benefits, costs, impacts and risks of your current approach to crop pest, weed and disease management for your land
- effectively plan how to adopt a range of integrated pest management methods appropriate to your farm
When to do it
You must make sure that a BASIS qualified adviser visits your farm to:
- complete the IPM assessment and help you produce a written IPM plan within the first 12 months of your SFI agreement
- reassess your approach to crop pest, weed and disease management and review your written IPM plan in each subsequent year of your SFI agreement
How to do it It’s up to you how you complete this action, as long as you do it in a way that can reasonably be expected to achieve this action’s aim.
You may find it helpful to read the voluntary guidance on how to complete an integrated pest management assessment and produce a plan, but you do not have to follow it.
What evidence to keep You must keep:
- a written record of your IPM plan, including the IPM assessment
- evidence that the adviser is a BASIS qualified adviser, such as their name and
BASIS registration number.
You must supply this evidence if we ask for it.
The same action appears in the other schemes under a different code. The work is broadly the same; the rate and the length of the commitment are not.
- SFI 2024 — CIPM1: £1,129 for the assessment and plan per year, over 3 years
Where you can do it
You can do this action on all agricultural land located below the moorland line.
IPM1 is an agreement level SFI action. Once you’ve included this action in an SFI agreement, you cannot apply for it again until that 3-year agreement ends. You cannot apply for it in multiple SFI agreements.
This means you do not enter specific areas of land into this action in your SFI application. The assessment and IPM plan should cover all of the relevant areas of your farm.
To apply for this action, at least 1 land parcel needs to be linked to your Single Business Identifier (SBI), so it shows on your digital maps in the Rural Payments service.
Other land management actions or options you can do with IPM1 The table below sets out which other SFI actions, CS management options, ES revenue options and SFI pilot standards you can do with IPM1. This is only possible if the requirements explained under ‘Where you can do this action’ above are met.
Scheme Actions or options that can be done with IPM1 SFI 2023 All SFI actions, except MOR1 CS All CS management options ES All ES revenue options SFI pilot All SFI pilot standards What to do You must arrange for a member of the BASIS Professional Register who’s qualified with the relevant BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection for the crops you’re growing (a ‘BASIS qualified adviser’) to visit your farm to:
- assess your current approach to crop pest, weed and disease management for your land
- identify and discuss opportunities for using IPM on that land
- help you to produce a written IPM plan
You must make sure that the BASIS qualified adviser does what’s required above.
If you’re a BASIS qualified adviser, as defined above, you can complete this action yourself.
If you already have a written IPM plan, informed by an IPM assessment, carried out by a BASIS qualified adviser, you can use it to meet this action if it was written within the last 12 months.
