ollie989898
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Completely agree.
I think agronomists putting blanket applications of actives over thousands of acres haven't helped either. Mind, farmers who are putting everything on at excessive rates won't be helping matters, either. I've known people go out and put slug pellets on a crop just because they think it will rain, or go out and spray everything to the exact inch trying to control weeds under hedge. Others still will go out and borrow from or use grain as seed knowing it is from a filthy source and then have to throw the kitchen sink at it to try and clean the resultant crop up. Others don't maximise the use of rotation or are blanketing individual fields with slurry year on year application after application. There is plenty of bad practice out there if you go to look for it.