Reduce damage to crops by pests Use biological control on food crops
Encourage beneficial insects Create 6m uncropped cultivated margins on arable land
Create beetle banks
Use a diverse crop rotation to reduce the incidence of weeds, pests and diseases in food crops
Use pest and disease resistant varieties for food crops
Use synthetic pesticides on food crops
Use mechanical or flame weeding on food crops
Improve arable crop nutrition Accurate calculation of nutrient requirements of arable crops
Predict crop nutrient requirements using canopy management or chlorophyll testing
Use synthetic pesticides on non-food crops (incl grass and forage)
Use a diverse crop rotation to reduce the incidence of weeds, pests and diseases in non-food crops (incl grass and forage)
Use mechanical or flame weeding on non-food crops (incl grass and forage)
Continuous cropping (monoculture)