Neonic Ban Hits England Rapeseed Production
August 11, 2016
From: AgWeek
LONDON – The wheat area in England for this year’s harvest rose 0.3 percent to 1.70 million hectares but rapeseed plantings fell by 10.6 percent to 546,000 hectares, Britain’s farm ministry said on Thursday issuing provisional results of its June survey.
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Traders and analysts had said the decline in rapeseed area has been driven by weak margins and increased risks associated with growing the crop partly linked to a ban on a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids.
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