Pesticide usage in Scotland: arable crops and potato stores 2016
This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on arable crops and potato stores in Scotland during 2016.
Table 9 Winter oilseed rape herbicide and growth regulator formulations - 2016
Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated
| Herbicides |
Winter oilseed rape |
2014 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| (ha) |
(%) |
(ha) |
|
| Aminopyralid/propyzamide |
1,528 |
5 |
824 |
| Carbetamide |
573 |
2 |
0 |
| Clomazone |
9,617 |
32 |
7,328 |
| Clomazone/metazachlor |
296 |
1 |
3,426 |
| Clopyralid |
23 |
<0.5 |
269 |
| Clopyralid/picloram |
2,075 |
7 |
910 |
| Dimethachlor |
412 |
1 |
748 |
| Dimethenamid-P/metazachlor |
2,552 |
8 |
488 |
| Dimethenamid-P/ metazachlor/quinmerac |
1,093 |
4 |
4,295 |
| Diquat |
1,021 |
3 |
1,577 |
| Fluazifop-P-butyl |
4,135 |
14 |
7,485 |
| Glyphosate |
23,010 |
76 |
25,872 |
| Metazachlor |
14,501 |
48 |
18,873 |
| Metazachlor/quinmerac |
6,420 |
21 |
7,414 |
| Propaquizafop |
12,589 |
41 |
12,634 |
| Propyzamide |
3,597 |
12 |
3,718 |
| Quizalofop-P-ethyl |
3,475 |
12 |
2,791 |
| Quizalofop-P-tefuryl |
3,490 |
12 |
6,650 |
| All herbicides |
90,409 |
98 |
105,740 |
| Growth regulators (1) |
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| Mepiquat Chloride/Metconazole |
5,965 |
20 |
3,692 |
| All growth regulators |
5,965 |
20 |
3,692 |
| Area grown |
30,142 |
36,419 |
|
(1) It should be noted that the fungicides metconazole and tebuconazole, both have plant growth regulating properties on oilseed rape and therefore can have a dual purpose on this crop.
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