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Pesticide Usage in Scotland: Grassland and Fodder Crops 2017

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on grassland and fodder crops in Scotland during 2017.

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

Herbicides	Direct sown grass		Undersown grass		Grass 1 to 4 years		Grass over 5 years		Rough grazing		Total 2017	Total 2017	2013 ⁽¹⁾	2013 ⁽¹⁾
Herbicides	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
2,4-D	0	0	0	0	183	<0.5	1,558	<0.5	379	<0.5	2,120	2,518	5,043	6,584
2,4-D/dicamba	0	0	0	0	0	0	917	<0.5	0	0	917	447	152	211
2,4-D/dicamba/triclopyr	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	<0.5	0	0	17	9	0	0
2,4-D/glyphosate	207	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	207	331	0	0
2,4-D/ MCPA	207	1	709	9	146	<0.5	1,527	<0.5	298	<0.5	2,888	5,307	2,154	4,754
2,4- DB	1,132	6	2,746	36	192	<0.5	507	<0.5	0	0	4,577	5,033	8,112	9,540
2,4- DB/ MCPA	113	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	113	190	257	385
Amidosulfuron	132	1	0	0	697	<0.5	220	<0.5	0	0	1,049	42	468	17
Aminopyralid/triclopyr	73	<0.5	0	0	424	<0.5	3,938	<0.5	0	0	4,436	2,185	652	343
Asulam	0	0	0	0	0	0	142	<0.5	5,886	<0.5	6,028	24,817	5,758	24,885
Clopyralid/florasulam/fluroxypyr	177	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	177	32	0	0
Clopyralid/fluroxypyr/triclopyr	0	0	0	0	145	<0.5	461	<0.5	0	0	606	441	1,435	781
Clopyralid/triclopyr	64	<0.5	0	0	743	<0.5	6,591	1	0	0	7,398	2,649	1,988	845
Dicamba/ MCPA/mecoprop-P	0	0	87	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	87	121	836	1,057

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Table 5 Grassland herbicide and growth regulator formulations – 2017 continued

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

Herbicides	Direct sown grass		Undersown grass		Grass 1 to 4 years		Grass over 5 years		Rough grazing		Total 2017	Total 2017	2013 ⁽¹⁾	2013 ⁽¹⁾
Herbicides	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Dicamba/mecoprop-P	0	0	69	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	69	40	1,450	993
Florasulam/fluroxypyr	0	0	522	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	522	60	0	0
Fluroxypyr	413	2	867	11	1,043	1	8,804	1	298	<0.5	11,426	3,191	1,766	456
Fluroxypyr/triclopyr	50	0	0	0	931	<0.5	8,061	1	828	<0.5	9,871	4,413	4,701	2,062
Glyphosate	1,517	8	0	0	240	<0.5	2,037	<0.5	927	<0.5	4,721	6,200	4,941	8,333
MCPA	313	2	430	6	146	<0.5	10,489	1	5,762	<0.5	17,140	23,761	13,193	16,009
Metsulfuron-methyl	0	0	0	0	0	0	228	<0.5	0	0	228	<0.5	777	1
Thifensulfuron-methyl	48	<0.5	0	0	0	0	285	<0.5	0	0	332	3	725	8
Thifensulfuron-methyl/tribenuron-methyl	0	0	188	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	188	4	0	0
Tribenuron-methyl	652	3	2,735	36	192	<0.5	223	<0.5	0	0	3,802	21	7,769	36
Unspecified herbicide ⁽²⁾	297	2	0	0	13	<0.5	45	<0.5	0	0	355	N/A	0	N/A
All herbicides	5,396	20	8,352	60	5,098	3	46,050	3	14,378	<0.5	79,274	81,815	66,602	78,377

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Table 5 Grassland herbicide and growth regulator formulations – 2017 continued

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

Growth regulators	Direct sown grass		Undersown grass		Grass 1 to 4 years		Grass over 5 years		Rough grazing		Total 2017	Total 2017	2013 ⁽¹⁾	2013 ⁽¹⁾
Growth regulators	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
2-Chloroethylphosphonic acid	0	0	189	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	189	31	0	0
Chlormequat	0	0	258	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	258	194	159	57
Mepiquat chloride/prohexadione-calcium	0	0	159	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	159	26	0	0
All growth regulators	0	0	606	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	606	250	721	270
	19,587		7,563		186,667		1,112,553		3,037,615		4,363,985		4,400,870

(1) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2013 please refer to the 2013 report ⁽³⁾

(2) Refer to Appendix 3 for definitions

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