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Explore pest and disease data and information collected over 50 years with the Defra Pest & Disease Survey website.

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The project is funded by Defra. The survey has been running for approximately 50 years and monitors endemic pests and diseases in commercial crops of winter wheat and winter oilseed rape, along with accompanying information about agronomic practice and pesticide inputs.

Project Aim

To deliver pest and disease information essential to establishing consensus across policy, research and industry.

 For the public:

Find out how we manage pests and diseases in wheat and oilseed rape crops in the UK whilst protecting the environment.
 

 For farmers and advisers:

See how your pest and disease levels compare with the regional and national mean values.  Look at trends across seasons and explore variety choices, sowing date decisions and current popular tillage practices.
 

 For industry:

Download regional and national level data which are essential for running forecasting models, view trends in pest and disease levels to inform future breeding priorities and to understand the impact of changes in agronomic practice and European pesticide legislation.
 

 For researchers:

Access a large historical data set of pest and disease observations from across a wide range of sites and seasons, underpinned by robust statistical stratification.  Compare with corresponding agronomic and pesticide input information to support research across many key areas.  
 

 For policy makers:

Obtain evidence to inform policy decisions in a post-Brexit era.

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