Pesticide usage - arable crops and potato stores 2018: survey results

Table 5: Cereal herbicide/desiccant and growth regulator formulations – 2018

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

Herbicides/desiccants	Winter barley		Spring barley		Winter wheat		Spring wheat		Winter oats		Spring oats		Total 2018(1)	Total 2018(1)	2016(2,3)	2016(2,3)
	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
2,4-D/Glyphosate	0	0	4	<0.5	4	<0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	15	0	0
2,4-D/MCPA	0	0	111	<0.5	0	0	416	8	0	0	0	0	527	836	2,975	5,021
2,4-DB	0	0	5,581	2	0	0	255	5	0	0	60	<0.5	5,897	5,484	5,742	4,528
2,4-DB/MCPA	0	0	322	<0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	322	460	473	926
Amidosulfuron/iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium	0	0	868	<0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	868	17	1,250	31
Bromoxynil/diflufenican	0	0	0	0	480	1	657	12	0	0	0	0	1,137	64	0	0
Carfentrazone-ethyl/flupyrsulfuron-methyl	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	185	2	0	0	185	2	324	6
Chlorotoluron/diflufenican/pendimethalin	3,931	10	5,347	2	2,569	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	11,847	13,235	7,798	7,865
Clodinafop-propargyl	0	0	0	0	9,716	10	99	2	0	0	0	0	9,815	272	9,695	274

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Table 5 Cereal herbicide/desiccant and growth regulator formulations – 2018 continued

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

Herbicides/desiccants	Winter barley		Spring barley		Winter wheat		Spring wheat		Winter oat		Spring oats		Total 2018(1)	Total 2018(1)	2016(2,3)	2016(2,3)
	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Clopyralid	0	0	0	0	426	<0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	426	25	522	37
Clopyralid/florasulam/fluroxypyr	0	0	10,336	4	1,687	2	0	0	0	0	872	4	12,896	1,856	29,842	4,581
Dicamba/MCPA/mecoprop-P	0	0	1,236	<0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	65	<0.5	1,301	1,072	1,766	1,467
Dicamba/mecoprop-P	1,076	3	31,767	13	1,154	1	2,018	36	0	0	2,351	10	38,364	19,363	67,117	34,957
Dichlorprop-P/MCPA/mecoprop-P	0	0	5,607	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	633	3	6,240	5,362	7,049	6,227
Diflufenican	8,085	22	23,739	9	26,748	28	0	0	470	6	2,583	11	64,562	4,324	60,583	3,369
Diflufenican/florasulam	0	0	6,100	2	604	1	47	1	0	0	0	0	6,752	231	1,326	55
Diflufenican/flufenacet	10,546	28	21,163	8	22,889	24	315	6	4,135	49	0	0	60,984	9,307	61,054	10,713
Diflufenican/flufenacet/flurtamone	908	2	0	0	3,307	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	4,215	1,359	15,889	3,257
Diflufenican/flupyrsulfuron-methyl	0	0	0	0	6,409	7	0	0	1,779	21	0	0	8,188	432	5,211	246

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Table 5: Cereal herbicide/desiccant and growth regulator formulations – 2018 continued

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

Herbicides/desiccants	Winter barley		Spring barley		Winter wheat		Spring wheat		Winter oats		Spring oats		Total 2018(1)	Total 2018(1)	2016(2,3)	2016(2,3)
	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Diflufenican/flufenacet/flurtamone	908	2	0	0	3,307	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	4,215	1,359	15,889	3,257
Diflufenican/flupyrsulfuron-methyl	0	0	0	0	6,409	7	0	0	1,779	21	0	0	8,188	432	5,211	246
Diflufenican/flurtamone	1,246	3	108	<0.5	1,928	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3,281	437	3,668	426
Diflufenican/iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium/mesosulfuron-methyl	0	0	0	0	4,021	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	4,021	184	11,253	560
Diflufenican/pendimethalin	1,315	4	566	<0.5	4,329	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	6,209	4,074	4,649	3,323
Fenoxaprop-P-ethyl	0	0	8,185	3	915	1	127	2	0	0	31	<0.5	9,258	532	5,542	300
Florasulam	1,535	4	1,550	<0.5	2,267	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5,352	15	4,880	23
Florasulam/fluroxypyr	2,909	8	8,854	4	4,080	4	126	2	1,755	21	1,629	7	20,068	1,471	29,769	2,457
Florasulam/halauxifen-methyl	4,342	12	21,819	8	11,959	13	548	10	0	0	0	0	38,669	240	0	0

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Table 5 Cereal herbicide/desiccant and growth regulator formulations – 2018 continued

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

Herbicides/desiccants	Winter barley		Spring barley		Winter wheat		Spring wheat		Winter oats		Spring oats		Total 2018(1)	Total 2018(1)	2016(2,3)	2016(2,3)
	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Florasulam/pyroxsulam	0	0	0	0	4,635	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	4,635	103	2,943	65
Flufenacet	840	2	0	0	1,451	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,291	248	1,155	142
Flufenacet/pendimethalin	2,281	6	6	<0.5	3,881	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	6,167	4,240	6,935	5,577
Flufenacet/picolinafen	3,682	10	0	0	8,743	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	12,658	2,316	143	21
Flumioxazine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	81	1	0	0	81	2	0	0
Flupyrsulfuron-methyl	1,077	3	0	0	12,172	13	0	0	466	6	0	0	13,715	87	21,541	133
Flupyrsulfuron-methyl/thifensulfuron-methyl	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	196	2	0	0	196	10	994	85
Fluroxypyr	3,301	9	53,709	21	15,221	16	2,193	40	1,123	13	9,050	34	84,597	10,405	83,242	10,826
Fluroxypyr/halauxifen-methyl	955	3	39,301	16	3,962	4	842	15	0	0	0	0	45,060	4,403	259	28
Fluroxypyr/mesosulfuron-methyl/thifensulfuron-methyl	908	2	29	<0.5	89	<0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,026	91	0	0
Glyphosate	22,722	59	80,528	30	20,048	21	1,571	28	2,435	28	7,681	29	134,985	96,176	171,119	135,969

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Table 5: Cereal herbicide/desiccant and growth regulator formulations – 2018 continued

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

Herbicides/desiccants	Winter barley		Spring barley		Winter wheat		Spring wheat		Winter oats		Spring oats		Total 2018(1)	Total 2018(1)	2016(2,3)	2016(2,3)
	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Imazosulfuron	303	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	303	3	0	0
Iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium/mesosulfuron-methyl	0	0	0	0	5,983	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	6,245	77	3,650	43
MCPA	0	0	2,679	1	0	0	88	2	0	0	1,796	8	4,563	3,423	4,498	2,241
Mecoprop-P	1,904	5	51,235	20	14,679	16	599	11	2,816	33	8,746	37	79,978	49,935	117,839	78,399
Mesosulfuron-methyl/propoxycarbazone-sodium	0	0	0	0	394	<0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	394	15	0	0
Metsulfuron-methyl	947	3	6,903	3	4,618	5	438	8	756	9	12	<0.5	13,674	57	14,528	64
Metsulfuron-methyl/thifensulfuron-methyl	2,712	7	94,936	38	9,261	10	2,230	40	302	4	448	2	109,890	3,228	102,747	3,065
Metsulfuron-methyl/tribenuron-methyl	1,699	5	35,910	14	6,111	6	304	5	2,889	34	7,185	30	54,098	478	55,577	543
Pendimethalin	6,881	18	15,714	6	13,902	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	37,066	28,111	39,493	27,532
Pendimethalin/picolinafen	14,371	38	26,197	10	31,546	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	74,828	54,317	74,303	58,964

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Table 5: Cereal herbicide/desiccant and growth regulator formulations – 2018 continued

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

Herbicides/dessicants	Winter barley		Spring barley		Winter wheat		Spring wheat		Winter oats		Spring oats		Total 2018(1)	Total 2018(1)	2016(2,3)	2016(2,3)
	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
Pinoxaden	4,893	12	39,112	16	4,038	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	48,042	1,167	45,012	1,156
Prosulfocarb	257	1	1,694	1	2,319	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4,271	5,431	2,248	3,596
Pyroxsulam	0	0	0	0	1,042	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,042	20	0	0
Sulfosulfuron	0	0	0	0	559	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	559	11	132	3
Thifensulfuron-methyl	0	0	614	<0.5	762	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,375	31	2,607	77
Thifensulfuron-methyl/tribenuron-methyl	2,438	6	41,992	17	4,428	5	1,041	16	910	11	5,201	22	56,272	1,473	49,597	1,202
Tribenuron-methyl	916	2	6,487	3	2,719	3	255	5	0	0	386	2	10,763	58	18,164	146
Unspecified herbicide(4)	372	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	372	N/A	1,392	N/A
All herbicides/desiccants	109,351	98	650,309	96	278,055	97	14,168	100	20,299	96	48,727	92	1,130,538	336,584	1,163,254	421,484

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Table 5: Cereal herbicide/desiccant and growth regulator formulations – 2018 continued

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

Growth regulators	Winter barley		Spring barley		Winter wheat		Spring wheat		Winter oats		Spring oats		Total 2018(1)	Total 2018(1)	2016(2,3)	2016(2,3)
	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	%	ha	kg	ha	kg
2-Chloroethylphosphonic acid/chlormequat	6,930	18	1,149	<0.5	3,677	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	11,757	5,015	17,687	7,294
2-Chloroethylphosphonic acid/chlormequat chloride	1,489	4	82	<0.5	2,145	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3,715	1,517	4,891	1,865
2-Chloroethylphosphonic acid/mepiquat	481	1	0	0	81	<0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	562	346	5,617	2,406
Chlormequat	32,171	75	23,677	9	96,171	84	1,818	31	6,873	78	11,822	47	177,045	154,752	3,619	161,243
Chlormequat chloride	0	0	0	0	1,416	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,416	892	195,441	2,528
Chlormequat/imazaquin	0	0	0	0	10,296	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	12,448	5,451	2,941	8,056
Mepiquat chloride/prohexadione-calcium	10,373	23	14,649	6	18,727	18	91	2	1,769	19	4,935	21	51,548	7,642	17,959	6,560
Prohexadione-calcium/trinexapac-ethyl	926	2	2,728	1	5,388	4	0	0	398	5	289	1	9,962	326	41,784	45
Trinexapac-ethyl	28,816	62	10,040	4	80,843	67	992	17	7,512	77	5,818	25	138,678	4,984	1,785	4,997
All growth regulators	93,360	96	60,755	22	239,784	95	2,902	38	16,552	97	22,864	77	448,775	188,943	156,509	204,053
Area grown	37,541		250,476		94,236		5,542		8,440		23,662		425,674		432,077

(1) Includes winter rye

(2) Includes winter rye and triticale

(3) For full list of formulations recorded in 2016 please refer to the 2016 report⁽³⁾

(4) Refer to Appendix 3 for definitions