Pesticide usage - soft fruit crops 2018: survey results

Information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2018.


Table 4 Strawberry fungicide and sulphur formulations - 2018

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

Fungicides Non-protected strawberry Protected strawberry All strawberry 2018 All strawberry 2016(1)
ha % ha % ha kg ha kg
Azoxystrobin 7 13 874 60 881 220 1,109 276
Azoxystrobin/difenoconazole 0 0 29 2 29 9 0 0
Boscalid/pyraclostrobin 9 29 431 30 440 227 788 333
Bupirimate 0 0 1,233 70 1,233 420 857 297
Chlorothalonil 0 0 82 7 82 82 16 16
Cyflufenamid 0 0 938 63 938 14 70 1
Cyprodinil/fludioxonil 23 54 1,232 67 1,255 777 1,201 747
Difenoconazole/fluxapyroxad 12 20 166 12 178 13 0 0
Dimethomorph 1 3 183 16 184 275 104 155
Fenamidone/fosetyl-aluminium 2 6 579 49 581 1,462 155 399
Fenhexamid 43 67 1,862 95 1,905 1,338 1,227 891
Fenpropimorph 9 31 234 14 243 173 346 251
Fenpyrazamine 4 13 415 28 419 240 0 0
Fluopyram/trifloxystrobin 0 0 1,714 94 1,714 681 0 0
Iprodione 0 0 167 13 167 119 1,078 795
Kresoxim-methyl 7 25 225 18 232 34 242 36
Mepanipyrim 10 35 458 34 469 182 54 22
Fungicides
Meptyldinocap 0 0 87 8 87 18 250 52
Penconazole 17 29 940 73 957 48 177 8
Potassium hydrogen carbonate 0 0 434 16 434 2,573 217 935
Proquinazid 0 0 141 12 141 5 0 0
Pyrimethanil 0 0 689 54 689 517 327 238
Quinoxyfen 3 9 753 38 756 94 768 96
All fungicides 147 71 13,865 100 14,012 9,523 10,593 5,682
Sulphur 0 0 549 18 549 657 339 185
Area grown 30 1,145 1,175 995

(1) For a full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report(4)

Contact

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