- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Another unlevel playing field in the EU......
Farcical. Sadly I doubt we will apply for it or get a derogation.
We would almost certainly get a derogation, if we were to apply for it. It won't matter for next year's drilling anyway, as we will be out proper by then, and the UK government will have the final say on it themselves.
I can understand the theory behind banning it in annual, flowering crops like OSR, as bees could potentially take in the chems from gathering nectar. In non-flowering plants such as beet and other bi-annual roots there is absolutely no reason for them to have been banned.
The beekeepers are however lamenting the loss of the early season nectar afforded by OSR, and calling for neonics to be allowed in that crop again.
The world's gone mad.