2020 asulam restrictions

steveR

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Mixed Farmer
As is stands at the moment there to be no ground based applications ( knapsack, quad/ tractor etc) in 2020. Its aerial application only and the buffer strip for water has now gone up to 90 meters.

This will affect a lot of hill farms, land owners and contractors in the control of bracken.

Please support https://www.brackencontrol.co.uk/ and help resolve this

Purely out of interest, why on earth do they ban ground based applications, but not air?? Bizarre.
 

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