LATEST UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 2020
UK WITHDRAWAL OF METALDEHYDE: From 31 March 2021 no further supplies from manufacturers will be permitted but distributors can still sell stocks and use can continue until 31 March 2022. From 1 April 2022 it will then be illegal to sell and use metaldehyde products.
Machinery settings
The spreader setting examples to be within metaldehyde guidelines are based on operating a forward speed of 12 km/hr
Click on the list below to display the settings or applicators fitted to quad bikes. Treatments can also be made using fertiliser applicators (check manufacturer’s instructions).
Select Spreader Setting
| % metaldehyde | |
| Rate/ha | |
| g metaldehyde/ha | |
| Spreader type | Setting |
| E & P TFL 100p | Motor speed |
| Bias | |
| Rate setting | |
| Stock Fanjet Pro 65 | Motor speed |
| Bias | |
| Rate setting |
| KRM ZS 200 | Motor speed |
| Bias | |
| Rate setting | |
| Vane position |
| E & P TFL 80p | Motor speed |
| Bias | |
| Rate setting |
| Spinner | |
| 5% | |
| 4kg/ha | |
| 200 | |
| 12m | |
| 5 max | |
| 7.5 | |
| 3.5 | |
| 4 min |
| 90 |
| 3.5 |
| 1100 |
| 7 |
| 13 |
| 2,3,4 |
| 5 max |
| 7.5 |
| 5.5 |
Click here to download the full machinery settings poster.
These settings are a guide and to satisfy the Sustainable Use Directive (SUD), all slug pellet application equipment over five years old that is in use should have been tested by 26th November 2016, and then every six years thereafter.
If equipment is less than five years old it needs to be tested by its fifth anniversary, and then every six years thereafter.
For more information on testing requirements, click here. [Link to the following address: http://www.nsts.org.uk/static/assets/downloads/SlugPelletApplicatorTestLeaflets.pdf
The National Sprayer Testing Scheme (NSTS) is delegated as the body to test application equipment in the UK. Visit www.nsts.org.uk to find your nearest, or preferred test centre.