Pelleting - best practice vital to retain slug-killers

摘要

Remember, pellets are pesticides, so treat them as such when applying to crops this autumn. Much of the best practice advice is com-monsense, so take a few moments to check procedures before starting applications. When surveyed, one in five farm advisers said they felt normal practices used by growers were likely to result in metaldehyde affecting water quality. The most commonly cited reasons were spreading into field margins, filling the spreader in the wrong place and applying pellets when heavy rain was imminent