Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine IPM strategy
- Identify weed, pest and disease infestations considering enterprise requirements
- Define weed, pest and disease relationships and any vectors as key factors in developing the integrated pest management (IPM) program
- Develop a system to assess the size and extent of any infestation
- Assess business implications and urgency of action according to published data, enterprise policy and/or economic threshold
- Report conditions likely to impact on business viability
- Determine the economic threshold for the crops grown
- Design control measures for weeds, pests or diseases
- Determine the appropriate method to control any weed, pest or disease issue that ensures limited impact on beneficial organisms and minimises the possibility of weeds, pests or diseases developing resistance
- Develop strategies to ensure minimal or no risk of resistance developing in the range of weeds, pests or diseases identified
- Ensure that control measures account for the damage threshold for the enterprise requirement or particular crop and to ensure the product still conforms to market access requirements
- Develop a weed, pest or disease prevention program where possible to minimise, limit or remove certain risk factors
- Develop monitoring requirements for weed, pest or disease control measures