{"id":94043,"date":"2025-09-30T05:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94043\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T05:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:11:10","slug":"integrated-pest-management-is-not-a-restriction-its-a-toolkit-that-will-keep-your-farm-viable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94043\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrated pest management is not a restriction \u2013 it\u2019s a toolkit that will keep your farm viable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The pressure is building \u2013 from nature, from regulation, from markets. And the farms that adapt fastest will be the ones still thriving in 10 years\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Early sowing can have big rewards \u2013 beat weather, spread workload \u2013 but comes with risks'. Photo: Roger Jones\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IL DSC 2362.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;Early sowing can have big rewards \u2013 beat weather, spread workload \u2013 but comes with risks&#8217;. Photo: Roger Jones<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This year\u2019s grain prices have made survival tough for tillage farmers; our farm pesticide usage is making live tough for their allies \u2013 insect predators and soil microflora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Meanwhile our merchants are finding it increasingly difficult to incorporate native grains in rations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pressure is building \u2013 from nature, from regulation, from markets. And the farms that adapt fastest will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,60840,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-94043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-farming-environment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}