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.
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Table 8 Winter oilseed rape fungicide and sulphur formulations - 2016
Area (ha) and percentage of crop treated
| Fungicides (1) |
Winter oilseed rape |
2014 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| (ha) |
(%) |
(ha) |
|
| Azoxystrobin |
4,577 |
12 |
4,357 |
| Azoxystrobin/cyproconazole |
860 |
3 |
3,562 |
| Azoxystrobin/isopyrazam |
700 |
2 |
0 |
| Bixafen/prothioconazole/tebuconazole |
3,193 |
11 |
5,652 |
| Boscalid |
7,931 |
26 |
7,790 |
| Boscalid/dimoxystrobin |
1,251 |
4 |
0 |
| Boscalid/metconazole |
4,873 |
16 |
10,341 |
| Copper oxychloride |
514 |
1 |
0 |
| Difenoconazole |
209 |
1 |
0 |
| Fenpropimorph |
609 |
2 |
0 |
| Fluopyram/propiconazole |
1,448 |
5 |
0 |
| Fluopyram/prothioconazole |
6,756 |
22 |
4,995 |
| Iprodione/thiophanate-methyl |
1,062 |
4 |
1,253 |
| Penthiopyrad/picoxystrobin |
4,569 |
14 |
0 |
| Picoxystrobin |
5,380 |
18 |
7,155 |
| Prochloraz |
894 |
3 |
151 |
| Prochloraz/tebuconazole |
9,425 |
27 |
7,808 |
| Prothioconazole |
17,112 |
37 |
17,578 |
| Prothioconazole/tebuconazole |
18,510 |
38 |
38,699 |
| Tebuconazole |
8,645 |
22 |
11,012 |
| Thiophanate-methyl |
2,163 |
7 |
0 |
| All fungicides |
100,681 |
99 |
160,020 |
| Sulphur |
2,973 |
5 |
1,072 |
| Area grown |
30,142 |
36,419 |
|
(1) It should be noted that the fungicides metconazole and tebuconazole, both have plant growth regulating properties on oilseed rape and therefore can have a dual purpose on this crop