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 Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.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 5: Strawberry herbicide formulations - 2016

Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated

Herbicides Non-protected Strawberry Protected Strawberry All Strawberry 2014 (1)
(Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha) (%) (Ha)
Carfentrazone-ethyl 0 0 103 11 103 10 0
Clopyralid 10 7 23 3 34 3 0
Cycloxydim 5 7 0 0 5 1 1
Diquat 1 1 828 40 828 37 1,507
Glufosinate-ammonium 0 0 73 6 73 6 686
Glyphosate 0 0 85 8 85 7 56
Isoxaben 17 22 324 33 341 32 88
Lenacil 2 2 0 0 2 <0.5 43
Metamitron 5 7 23 3 29 3 60
Napropamide 17 22 383 39 400 38 163
Pendimethalin 2 2 0 0 2 <0.5 21
Phenmedipham 5 2 0 0 5 <0.5 5
Propyzamide 5 7 90 9 96 9 37
All herbicides 68 25 1,933 54 2,001 52 2,671
Area grown 75 920 995 972

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

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