UK gave green light for neonics use on sugar beet seed this spring
Sugar beet growers will be able to plant seed this spring coated with Cruiser SB (thiamethoxam) neonicotinoid seed treatment, providing essential protection for crops from virus yellows spread by aphids.
It is reported by fwi.co.uk.
At the end of January, Defra granted a derogation to use the controversial seed treatment, which had originally been banned by the EU in 2018, subject to strict conditions.
One of these was that the official Rothamsted forecast, which predicts the likely incidence of virus yellows in the season ahead, should exceed 63%.