It has been discovered that pesticide residues in manure may cause damage to plants.
The Pesticides Safety Directorate issued a Regulatory
Update number 15/2008, on 16 June 2008, stating that they have ‘received a number of enquiries from allotment users concerned about damage to their plants, particularly potatoes and beans, which have either failed to grow properly or, in some cases, have failed to grow at all.’ Potato crops show unusual growth effects, particularly thickened, distorted leaves
and poor growth.
The problem has been traced to a herbicide called aminopyralid, which is
found in products marketed by Dow AgroSciences Ltd such as Banish, Forefront, Halcyon,
Pharaoh, Pro-Banish, or Runway.
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