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Pesticide usage - arable crops and potato stores 2018: survey results

Information from a survey of pesticide use on arable crops and potato stores in Scotland during 2018.

Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated

Insecticides	Oilseed Rape 2018⁽¹⁾		Oilseed Rape 2018⁽¹⁾	2016⁽²⁾	2016⁽²⁾
Insecticides	ha	%	kg	ha	kg
Deltamethrin	1,701	5	10	326	2
Indoxacarb	199	1	4	589	12
Lambda-cyhalothrin	14,318	32	84	22,438	132
Tau-fluvalinate	10,667	30	389	11,035	437
Zeta-cypermethrin	6,468	18	64	4,986	49
All insecticides	33,353	65	551	43,782	805
Molluscicides
Ferric phosphate	8,174	23	926	1,187	138
Metaldehyde	15,743	41	1,513	14,353	1,647
All molluscicides	23,917	59	2,439	16,234	1,846
Area grown	32,735			30,142

(1) Oilseed rape figures from 2018 include spring oilseed rape. No spring oilseed rape crops were sampled in 2016

(2) For full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report⁽³⁾

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