Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops

A revised version of this report has been issued to correct inaccuracies in active substance application weight data that were overestimated in the original report. This issue only affects certain herbicide active substances in relation to quantity applied. Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2016.


Table 9: Raspberry herbicide formulations - 2016

Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated

Herbicides Non-protected raspberry Protected raspberry All raspberry 2014 (1)
(Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha)
Carfentrazone-ethyl 37 28 78 39 115 35 105
Diquat 122 81 79 40 201 56 128
Fluazifop-P-butyl 34 26 0 0 34 10 12
Glyphosate 0 0 15 8 15 5 29
Isoxaben 79 61 33 16 112 34 52
Lenacil 1 1 4 2 5 2 1
Napropamide 29 22 64 32 94 28 26
Pendimethalin 68 52 0 0 68 21 39
Propyzamide 44 34 32 16 76 23 3
All herbicides 414 81 305 67 719 72 434
Area grown 131 199 329 314

(1) For full list of formulations recorded in 2014 please refer to the 2014 report (3)

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