Personally, I take these % efficacy figures in the same way that I take car m.p.g. figures - i.e. perhaps as a bit of a guide.
It would take us, say, between 8-10 years to bring an agrochemical product to market from the initial screening stage; the final stages were spent identifying the best way that the product could be used in the field. You could guarantee that the moment the product hit the market - and sometimes before - some smartass would come along with some method of making it cheaper/mixing it with something else/splitting the dose etc.. And they were surprised when we told them that their ideas would need to be tested in the field before they could be approved for commercial use. Enter Tony Blair.
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