Pesticide Use and Pest Management Practices
for Major Crops in North Dakota 1996

 ER 43
1998

Table 19. PASTURE: Herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, and desiccant usage and application method. North Dakota, 1996.

 

 

 Applicator Method of
application
Acres
treated2		 Acres
treated		 Applications Farm
operator		 Custom
1 2 3 Aerial Ground
(1000) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)

Herbicide1
2,4-D 143.0 1.2 85.5 14.5 0.1 73.3 26.7 30.0 70.0
Clopyralid+2,4-D 0.5 0.0 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Dicamba 12.3 0.1 99.6 0.4 - 97.2 2.8 - 100.0
Glyphosate 9.2 0.1 100.0 - - 91.6 8.4 8.4 91.6
Glyphosate+2,4-D 1.9 0.0 100.0 - - 45.9 54.1 54.1 45.9
Glyphosate+Dicamba 0.9 0.0 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
MCPA 8.4 0.1 100.0 - - 67.7 32.3 32.3 67.7
Metsulfuron 0.4 0.0 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Picloram 99.2 0.8 97.6 2.3 0.1 80.9 19.1 24.7 75.3
All Herbicides 275.8 2.3 91.6 8.4 0.1 77.5 22.5 26.1 73.9

1Herbicides applied as a tank mixture were considered separately unless a commercial premix was used.

2Multiple applications to the same acreage were totaled as separate values. Thus, acres treated can exceed 100% of planted acres.