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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.

Area treated (1000 ha) with the 50 most used active substances, including seed treatments, on all crops surveyed

No.	Active substance	Type ⁽¹⁾	2016	2014	% change
1	Prothioconazole	F/S	719	718	<0.5
2	Chlorothalonil	F	532	422	26
3	Tebuconazole	F/S	383	353	8
4	Prochloraz	F/S	258	287	-10
5	Epoxiconazole	F	256	293	-13
6	Chlormequat	G	231	224	3
7	Glyphosate	H	196	161	22
8	Mecoprop-P	H	191	217	-12
9	Metsulfuron-methyl	H	173	183	-6
10	Spiroxamine	F	164	176	-7
11	Trinexapac-ethyl	G	158	168	-6
12	Diflufenican	H	158	153	3
13	Thifensulfuron-methyl	H	155	176	-12
14	Triticonazole	S	144	180	-20
15	Fluroxypyr	H	142	124	15
16	Fluxapyroxad	F	139	79	75
17	Trifloxystrobin	F	138	117	18
18	Cymoxanil	F	137	144	-5
19	Pendimethalin	H	127	95	34
20	Tribenuron-methyl	H	123	138	-10
21	Fluopyram	F/S	119	101	17
22	Lambda-cyhalothrin	I	113	134	-15
23	Fenpropimorph	F	102	157	-35
24	Fluoxastrobin	F	95	100	-5
25	Bixafen	F	92	103	-11
26	Flufenacet	H	87	68	27
27	Mancozeb	F	82	96	-15
28	Pyraclostrobin	F	82	80	2
29	Picolinafen	H	75	39	90
30	Proquinazid	F	73	82	-11
31	2-Chloroethylphosphonic Acid	G	73	99	-26
32	Florasulam	H	70	62	12
33	Dicamba	H	69	69	-1
34	Cyazofamid	F	62	62	0
35	Boscalid	F	62	68	-9
36	Diquat	H	58	57	3
37	Metaldehyde	M	58	30	96
38	Folpet	F	54	101	-47
39	Picoxystrobin	F	53	61	-12
40	Mepiquat chloride	G	51	61	-16
41	Fluazinam	F	51	55	-7
42	Cyprodinil	F	51	79	-36
43	Pinoxaden	H	45	82	-45
44	Prohexadione-calcium	G	44	54	-19
45	Isopyrazam	F	42	48	-13
46	Mandipropamid	F	40	45	-11
47	Penthiopyrad	F	38	45	-15
48	Imazalil	S	36	17	110
49	Metconazole	F/G	35	78	-55
50	Fludioxonil	S	35	53	-34

(1) Pesticide type = F: Fungicide, G: Growth regulator, H: Herbicide, I: Insecticide, M: Molluscicide, S: Seed treatment.

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