Do you use pesticides? We'd like to hear from you!

[Brid @ ADAS]

We're looking for a range of pesticide users to take part in an online focus group for Defra about Integrated Pest Management (IPM). We'd like to hear how you manage your pesticide use and hear your thoughts on what could be done to better promote sustainable pest management practices.
Participants can be anyone who manages weeds and pests as part of their work or at home. We are offering a £60 incentive to those willing to take part.

More information can be found on the ADAS website https://www.adas.uk/News/are-you-a-...king-to-manage-weeds-plant-pests-and-diseases.
If you are interested, please send an email to [email protected] or call Hannah on 07774795065.
Thank you!

 

[whitefox]

i am very rarely a pesticide user,i am however a regular user of herbicides,fungicides,graminicides,molluscisides and pgrs,as a regulated and as much as i can be, a responsible (and proffesional) grower ,i know the difference between these products!!!,as i am sure do most of my peers,as a broad reference i would accept "crop chemicals",but to adopt the word "pesticide" to encompass all crop protection products is just nothing more than sensationalism

 

[California]

i am very rarely a pesticide user,i am however a regular user of herbicides,fungicides,graminicides,molluscisides and pgrs,as a regulated and as much as i can be, a responsible (and proffesional) grower ,i know the difference between these products!!!,as i am sure do most of my peers,as a broad reference i would accept "crop chemicals",but to adopt the word "pesticide" to encompass all crop protection products is just nothing more than sensationalism

If you regularly use herbicides, fungicides, molluscicides, pgrs etc. then you are indeed a regular user of pesticides as these products are all pesticides. I would agree though that the term "plant protection product" does sound a little "nicer".

 

[whitefox]

If you regularly use herbicides, fungicides, molluscicides, pgrs etc. then you are indeed a regular user of pesticides as these products are all pesticides. I would agree though that the term "plant protection product" does sound a little "nicer".

so would you use deltamethrin to control mildew?

 

[California]

so would you use deltamethrin to control mildew?

Err, no, you would use a fungicide (or more specifically a mildewicide) but fungicides are pesticides. That's why on the pesticide register you will see all plant protection products not just insecticides.
Insecticides are pesticides but not all pesticides are insecticides. Just like graminicides (which you mentioned) are herbicides but not all herbicides are graminicides.

 

[teslacoils]

We're looking for a range of pesticide users to take part in an online focus group for Defra about Integrated Pest Management (IPM). We'd like to hear how you manage your pesticide use and hear your thoughts on what could be done to better promote sustainable pest management practices.
Participants can be anyone who manages weeds and pests as part of their work or at home. We are offering a £60 incentive to those willing to take part.

More information can be found on the ADAS website https://www.adas.uk/News/are-you-a-...king-to-manage-weeds-plant-pests-and-diseases.
If you are interested, please send an email to [email protected] or call Hannah on 07774795065.
Thank you!

I'll do it.

But they are called "plant protection products" aren't they?

 

[Flat 10]

I emailed and was ignored

 

[Brid @ ADAS]

I emailed and was ignored

Very sorry @Flat 10. Hannah made contact this morning.