Our Sector Lead Prof Fiona Burnett's presentation about pesticide withdrawals referenced the Plant Health Centre publications, linked below:

PHC2018/15: Potential Impacts Arising from Pesticide Withdrawals to Scotland's Plant Health

PHC2020/09: Economic Impact of Pesticide Withdrawals to Scotland, with Case Studies

Henry Criessen and Elliot Meador presentations covered PHC supported project on Intergrated Pest Management uptake and Scotland's IPM assessment tool are linked below:

PHC project Identifying links between farmer and agronomist perceptions on pest and disease risk, the information sources they use to determine pesticide usage and the uptake of IPM methods

Scotland's IPM assessment tool

The Plant Health Centre published a report to outline the approach to tackling the future threat of PCN in Scotland. 

PCN Working Group final report

John Jones spoke about the resulting project at the meeting.