Which slug pellets?

Reg

Member
With the new 10m buffer does using Ferric Phosphate pellets on the whole field instead of metaldehyde become a viable solution. When I have previously used sluxx I found it a quality pellet. How do ironmax pro and sluxx compare for price and quality? What is everyone's favourite metaldehyde pellet? 1.5% or 3%? Sorry for too many questions.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
The new buffer zones mean I'm switching from 3% metaldehyde to ferric phosphate. The difference in price is a few pence/ha/dose, that's all.

I've used 3% metaldehyde pellets in the past because I'm not convinced that a 1.5% pellet gives a lethal dose if it gets split when being spun on. I could be wrong. It wasn't that long ago that 5% was the standard (before it started being detected in watercourses!)
 

david

Member
Location
County Down
Have used both Sluxx and Ironmax Pro over past 2 years and find both very good products.

Not sure if the 10m non-spread stewardship area around fields is practical in Northern Ireland because of small fields, much easier to fill spreader up with ferric product and get on.

I think metaldehyde days are numbered. If high concentrations of metaldehyde show up in water this autumn and winter I feel it will be the end of metaldehyde.

I don't have a problem as have learned to use ferric, and happy that they are effective.

@drummer_bruhaha - I have been told that ferric products are more effect at controlling juvenile slugs - have you any trials/data to support this ?
 

Desangosse Ltd

Member
Location
Cambs
Have used both Sluxx and Ironmax Pro over past 2 years and find both very good products.

Not sure if the 10m non-spread stewardship area around fields is practical in Northern Ireland because of small fields, much easier to fill spreader up with ferric product and get on.

I think metaldehyde days are numbered. If high concentrations of metaldehyde show up in water this autumn and winter I feel it will be the end of metaldehyde.

I don't have a problem as have learned to use ferric, and happy that they are effective.

@drummer_bruhaha - I have been told that ferric products are more effect at controlling juvenile slugs - have you any trials/data to support this ?

I haven't done any specific trials or noticed any difference on juveniles v's adults etc. It's Certis who have done that work.
 

Desangosse Ltd

Member
Location
Cambs
I am certainly very hopefully that the work we have carried out with metaldehyde, the enhanced stewardship and working with our regulators will ensure we retain metaldehyde for the future. We also have a very close working relationship with the water companies. Ferric will become a more common option for us all but hopefully we will still have two actives available in our battle against the slimy army.
 

bobk

Member
Location
stafford
Do not buy cheapskate pellets. Any of you. Seriously. Do not do it. By using that stuff you are going to get Metaldehyde banned. Some of the crap I have seen used by people who should know better in the last few years was appalling. Anything that is not in a wet process pellet should be banned immediately IMO.

Any recommendations ? may have to apply some to non rolled fields .
 

Grass And Grain

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Yorks
Do not buy cheapskate pellets. Any of you. Seriously. Do not do it. By using that stuff you are going to get Metaldehyde banned. Some of the crap I have seen used by people who should know better in the last few years was appalling. Anything that is not in a wet process pellet should be banned immediately IMO.

We'll said!

If the cheap pellets (that melt when it just look like drizzling) we're banned, then metaldehyd might be available for many years to come.

@bobk lynx are a good hard pellet which seem to stand the rain well.

On another point... Just because a pellet remains intact, does it mean the metaldehyd is still in the pellet, or can it have got washed out of the pellet?
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
We'll said!

If the cheap pellets (that melt when it just look like drizzling) we're banned, then metaldehyd might be available for many years to come.

@bobk lynx are a good hard pellet which seem to stand the rain well.

On another point... Just because a pellet remains intact, does it mean the metaldehyd is still in the pellet, or can it have got washed out of the pellet?

Can someone remind me how the pellets sold in garden centres are manufactured please?! ;)
 

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