Pesticide usage in Scotland: arable crops and potato stores 2016

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on arable crops and potato stores in Scotland during 2016.


Table 19 Cereal insecticide and molluscicide active substances - 2016

Area treated (ha), percentage of crop treated and quantity (kg) of active substances for all crops

Insecticides

Winter barley

Spring barley

Winter

wheat

Spring wheat

Winter

oats

Spring

oats

All cereals (1)

All cereals (1)

(ha)

(%)

(ha)

(%)

(ha)

(%)

(ha)

(%)

(ha)

(%)

(ha)

(%)

(ha)

(kg)

Alpha-cypermethrin

0

0

0

0

280

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

280

4

Chlorpyrifos

0

0

392

<0.5

1,104

1

83

1

0

0

95

<0.5

1,674

1,046

Cypermethrin

1,497

3

0

0

1,511

1

0

0

0

0

0

1,497

3,008

72

Deltamethrin

0

0

1,649

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1,649

10

Esfenvalerate

2,405

5

97

<0.5

1,808

2

0

0

0

0

0

2,405

4,310

12

Lambda-cyhalothrin

9,398

19

16,091

7

26,696

23

134

2

3,770

46

4,995

9,398

62,763

282

Zeta-cypermethrin

684

1

0

0

317

<0.5

0

0

789

10

0

684

1,791

22

All insecticides

13,983

28

18,228

8

31,718

27

216

3

4,559

55

5,090

13,983

75,473

1,447

Mollusicides

Ferric Phosphate

0

0

0

0

2,715

2

0

0

50

1

0

0

2,765

370

Metaldehyde

2,110

4

141

<0.5

13,432

10

0

0

50

1

0

0

15,733

2,064

Methiocarb

0

0

0

0

22

<0.5

0

0

0

0

0

0

22

2

All molluscicides

2,110

4

141

<0.5

16,169

12

0

0

100

1

0

0

18,520

2,436

Area grown

48,030

238,901

102,753

6,843

8,091

23,119

432,077

(1) Includes winter rye and triticale

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