Each year products are removed from the market, either by legislation or some which may are not renewed or are discontinued.

When a product is being removed from the market, it generally has a last date of sale to the trade, to the farmer and a use-up period on-farm.

All products must be used by this use-up period and cannot be held on-farm. If it is, you risk non-compliance in a Department of Agriculture inspection. This is also the case if you use the product after this use-up period.

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Products containing trisulfuron (eg Debut) and metribuzin (eg Sencorex, Firebird Met) can no longer be used on-farm. The use-up dates on these products were 7 November 2025 and 24 November 2025, respectively. Products containing Flufenacet (eg Firebird, Navigate) can only be sold until 31 May 2026 and must be used by 10 December 2026, see Table 1.

Products leaving the market

In 2026, we will see more products going off the market. Many of these products are leaving the market because their registration is up and probably haven’t been sold in a long time. The product may still exist in another form with a different PCS number or it may have been discontinued.

However, if you have these products in your store, or a half a can left then you need to use it up or send it to a hazardous waste collection.

A number of trinexapac-ethyl products needed to be used up by 1 February 2026 for example. This active can still be used, but some of the older versions of it now need to be used up. Freeze and Life Scientific Trinex for example need to be used up by 1 February 2026.

Empire Supreme, a herbicide, is another product leaving the market. Caramba is another product on the list. This is an extremely old product and the active is still in use, but the product can no longer be in stores.

Keep stocks up to date

In order to be compliant with a Department of Agriculture inspection or an Irish Grain Assurance Scheme inspection you need to have a stock record. This should be carried out every year so that you know what is in stock and so that you know what you have in stock to be used up.