UK Pesticides National Action Plan 2025 - A reaction Peter Shakespeare, Certis Belchim country manager - UK Framed against the UK’s statutory obligations in pesticide regulation, the 2025 Pesticides National Action Plan (NAP) has three clear objectives: 1. Encourage uptake of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) 2. Set targets and measures to monitor use of [...]

Facilitating ferric uptake – a biocontrol success story It’s human nature to gravitate towards routine. Routine slug control over several decades, for many growers, was reaching for a bag of metaldehyde-based pellets where chemical intervention was needed. Why waste time deliberating on the use of anything else when an existing and familiar solution is [...]

Nematode pest anxiety tempered by effective biocontrol Soil-dwelling plant-parasitic nematodes are the nemeses of many crops. Patchy, sporadic, and in some cases hard to accurately quantify, a handful of species can have a devastating impact on yield and quality in crops like carrots, parsnips, and sugar beet, to name but a few.In carrots and [...]