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External resources
- Online Pesticide Usage Statistics - Our summary pesticide usage statistics are available online, by active substance, crop group, times treated and other features
- Live interactive agronomic information service on the net - Fera's LIAISON system is a fully interactive, web-based database of UK pesticide approvals, label information, MRLs etc
Guidelines for the collection of pesticide usage statistics
On behalf of EUROSTAT, the Statistical Office of the European Community, the survey team have drawn up guidelines on the collection of pesticide usage statistics for use in member states. These guidelines have also been adopted by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
CAP reform: potential effects on environmental impact of farming
The Pesticide Usage Survey has also contributed to a scientific review for Defra on the impact of the CAP reform proposals. The work concentrated on the potential environmental impact of changes in pesticide and fertiliser usage on farms as a result of these proposals. An executive summary of this report is available.
Surveys of the agri-environment
Data on the usage of pesticides in the UK has been collated from across Great Britain for the last 40 years and continues to be collated today. The Land Use Sustainability team plays a leading role in this, applying their skills, knowledge and experience to gather the data, produce guidelines and create powerful, accessible databases for industry.
The team has also undertaken a survey of sprayer practices on arable farms throughout the United Kingdom, in order to provide the Crop Protection Association (CPA) with a further assessment for development of the Voluntary Initiative (VI) and its aims to reduce the risk of water contamination and increase farm biodiversity. This survey was first carried out in 2001 and repeated in 2004.
A full list of published reports are available. Abstracts from scientific papers and an insight into our contribution to current research in pesticide usage and other survey work are also available.
Pesticide usage surveys are funded by the Chemicals Regulation Directorate.
Our experts
Dave Garthwaite: Agri and Horticultural Survey Manager
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Main areas of work include surveys of pesticide usage and environmental stewardship. Other experience includes Informix database design and SQL data extraction.
Ian Barker: Agricultural surveyor
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Visiting farmers and growers in England and Wales to collect pesticide usage data on a wide range of agricultural and horticultural crops. Experienced in farm management including field experimental work and practical agronomy. Interests include agri-environmental schemes and sheep production systems.
Gillian Parrish: Administrative Support
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Providing accurate data entry for the Agricultural Survey Team and assists other teams within the group with ad hoc surveys, to enable reports to be produced on time for customers. This includes mail merge documents to farmers and growers, assisting with the writing up of computerised pesticide usage information and inputting and error checking data accurately and in a timely manner. Also provides administrative support to the Agri-surveys team.
Lynda Smith: Administrative Support
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Providing accurate data entry for the Agricultural Survey Team and assists other teams within the group with ad hoc surveys, to enable reports to be produced on time for customers. This includes mail merge documents to farmers and growers, assisting with the writing up of computerised pesticide usage information and inputting and error checking data accurately and in a timely manner. Also provides administrative support to the Agri-surveys team.