FARMERS NEWS

09 October 2009 • James Clarke

Reports available on impacts of changing pesticide availability: arable and forage crops

ADAS has a series of projects assessing the impacts of changing availability of pesticides. This follows changes to EU Regulations including revision of 91/414/EEC and the Water Framework Directive.

The full reports for HGCA (covering cereals and oilseeds), Potato Council (covering potatoes) and DairyCo and EBLEX (covering grass and forage crops) are all now available. Work is in hand on further crops.

The first report on cereals and oilseed has been published at:
http://www.hgca.com/publink.aspx?id=5850

The report on potatoes has also now been published ...

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