Pesticide Usage in Scotland: Grassland and Fodder Crops 2017

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank all the farmers, agronomists, contractors and seed merchants who agreed to provide information for this survey. The authors would also like to thank Fiona Burnett ( SRUC), Sarah Cook, Faye Ritchie and Sacha White ( ADAS) and Bashir Surfraz (Fera Science Ltd) for their very helpful comments on the manuscript. In addition, the authors are grateful for the support from Adam Hinchcliffe and his colleagues at Fera Science Ltd, Paul Gavin at the Scottish Government’s Agricultural Census Analysis Team and Adrian Roberts of Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland.