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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	Legumes 2018		Legumes 2018	2016⁽¹⁾	2016⁽¹⁾
Herbicides/desiccants	ha	%	kg	ha	kg
Clomazone	916	36	58	748	45
Clomazone/pendimethalin	78	3	85	364	323
Cycloxydim	116	5	23	0	0
Diquat	197	8	116	651	368
Glyphosate	1,304	41	1,596	1,908	1,860
Imazamox/pendimethalin	1,412	55	1,483	1,148	1,071
Linuron	116	5	17	811	409
Pendimethalin	339	13	339	1,394	1,089
Propaquizafop	159	6	11	326	23
Quizalofop-P-tefuryl	339	13	16	0	0
All herbicides/desiccants	4,976	72	3,745	8,053	6,107
Area grown	2,549			3,777

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

Note: legumes includes field beans and dry harvest peas

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