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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

Herbicides/desiccants	Oilseed Rape 2018⁽¹⁾		Oilseed Rape 2018⁽¹⁾	2016⁽²⁾	2016⁽²⁾
Herbicides/desiccants	ha	%	kg	ha	kg
Aminopyralid/metazachlor/picloram	1,073	3	834	0	0
Aminopyralid/propyzamide	878	3	739	1,528	901
Bifenox	270	1	129	0	0
Clomazone	10,295	31	607	9,617	561
Clomazone/metazachlor	3,988	12	2,679	296	155
Clopyralid	845	3	117	23	3
Clopyralid/picloram	2,074	6	225	2,075	229
Cycloxydim	55	<0.5	8	0	0
Dimethenamid-P/metazachlor	592	2	557	2,552	1,867
Dimethenamid-P/metazachlor/quinmerac	6,128	19	6,285	1,093	1,367
Diquat	824	3	495	1,021	613
Fluazifop-P-butyl	2,243	7	211	4,135	374
Glyphosate	26,942	80	35,098	23,010	30,707
Metazachlor	17,222	53	10,600	14,501	9,556
Metazachlor/quinmerac	1,627	5	1,392	6,420	5,521
Propaquizafop	11,854	35	593	12,589	613
Propyzamide	6,328	19	4,088	3,597	2,638
Quizalofop-P-ethyl	4,690	14	177	3,475	110
Quizalofop-P-tefuryl	2,122	6	60	3,490	105
Unspecified herbicide⁽³⁾	237	1	N/A	0	0
All herbicides/desiccants	100,286	99	64,895	90,409	56,768
Growth regulators
Mepiquat chloride/metconazole	5,139	16	938	5,965	1,098
All growth regulators	5,139	16	938	5,965	1,098
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⁾

(3) Refer to Appendix 3 for definitions

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