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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.
Table 3: Cereal insecticide and molluscicide formulations - 2018
Area (ha), weight (kg) and percentage of crop treated
| Insecticides | Winter barley | Spring barley | Winter wheat | Spring wheat | Winter oats | Spring oats | Total 2018(1) | Total 2018(1) | 2016(2,3) | 2016(2,3) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ha | % | ha | % | ha | % | ha | % | ha | % | ha | % | ha | kg | ha | kg | |
| Cypermethrin | 167 | <0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 167 | 3 | 3,008 | 72 |
| Deltamethrin | 259 | 1 | 1,086 | <0.5 | 99 | <0.5 | 0 | 0 | 286 | 3 | 1,105 | 5 | 2,835 | 11 | 1,649 | 10 |
| Esfenvalerate | 3,600 | 10 | 1,685 | 1 | 3,029 | 3 | 48 | 1 | 303 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8,666 | 30 | 4,310 | 12 |
| Lambda-cyhalothrin | 4,037 | 10 | 26,845 | 10 | 19,260 | 18 | 1,064 | 19 | 2,333 | 24 | 6,132 | 26 | 61,626 | 281 | 62,763 | 282 |
| Tau-fluvalinate | 0 | 0 | 614 | <0.5 | 479 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,092 | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| Unspecified insecticide(4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 538 | 2 | 538 | N/A | 0 | N/A |
| Zeta-cypermethrin | 299 | 1 | 1,622 | 1 | 692 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 232 | 3 | 358 | 2 | 3,203 | 32 | 1,791 | 22 |
| All insecticides | 8,361 | 22 | 31,852 | 12 | 23,559 | 21 | 1,113 | 20 | 3,155 | 30 | 8,133 | 34 | 78,127 | 385 | 75,473 | 1,447 |
| Molluscicides | ||||||||||||||||
| Ferric phosphate | 1,341 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7,533 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9,227 | 1,196 | 2,765 | 370 |
| Metaldehyde | 2,044 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17,968 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 201 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20,213 | 2,126 | 15,733 | 2,064 |
| All molluscicides | 3,385 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 25,501 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 291 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29,439 | 3,322 | 18,520 | 2,436 |
| Area grown | 37,541 | 250,476 | 94,236 | 5,542 | 8,440 | 23,662 | 425,674 | 432,077 | ||||||||
(1) Includes winter rye
(2) Includes winter rye and triticale
(3) For full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report(3)
(4) Refer to Appendix 3 for definitions
N/A = not applicable
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