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

 ER 43
1998

Table 1A. Acreage planted, acreage treated, and percentage of planted acreage treated with pesticides in crops. North Dakota, 1996.

Crop Acres planted1 Pesticide treated acres2
Treated seed On- farm treated
seed		 Herbi-
cide		 Insecti- cide Fungi- cide Dessi- cants Treated seed On- farm treated seed Herbi-
cide		 Insecti-
cide		 Fungi-
cide		 Dessi-
cants
(1000) (1000) (1000) (1000) (1000) (1000) (1000) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)
 
Wheat 12680.0 5737.9 4996.3 11809.8 541.5 244.6 3.3 45.3 39.4 93.1 4.3 1.9 0.0
Barley 2650.0 1349.8 1154.2 2417.1 20.0 37.1 - 50.9 43.6 91.2 0.8 1.4 -
Oat 530.0 36.2 31.2 218.5 3.5 0.2 0.0 6.8 5.9 41.2 0.7 0.0 0.0
Flax 80.0 6.5 1.6 55.0 0.0 0.0 - 8.1 2.0 68.8 0.0 0.0 -
Corn 900.0 714.6 80.4 738.6 55.6 1.6 1.6 79.4 8.9 82.1 6.2 0.2 0.2
Sunflower 1180.0 902.1 36.2 967.5 406.0 0.5 0.0 76.5 3.1 82.0 34.4 0.0 0.0
Soybean 850.0 80.5 36.7 797.5 12.8 0.6 0.0 9.5 4.3 93.8 1.5 0.1 0.0
Dry bean 580.0 488.8 5.4 539.3 2.0 108.9 12.1 84.3 0.9 93.0 0.3 18.8 2.1
Canola 191.6 146.0 5.8 145.1 15.8 1.1 - 76.2 3.0 75.8 8.2 0.6 -
Potato 134.0 83.0 61.6 58.9 99.7 111.4 42.6 61.9 46.0 44.0 74.4 83.1 31.8
Sugarbeet 226.6 226.6 1.3 219.9 90.1 141.5 0.2 100.0 0.6 97.0 39.8 62.5 0.1
Alfalfa hay 1700.0 16.2 0.5 6.1 8.1 - - 1.0 0.0 0.4 0.5 - -
Other hay 1200.0 2.5 - 15.3 0.5 - - 0.2 - 1.3 0.0 - -
Pasture 11938.2 24.1 0.0 191.8 0.0 - - 0.2 0.0 1.6 0.0 - -
Summer fallow 2000.0 13.7 - 504.3 0.0 - - 0.7 - 25.2 0.0 - -
CRP3 2842.6 3.7 - 80.1 0.0 - - 0.1 - 2.8 0.0 - -
Total 39683.0 9832.3 6411.0 18765.0 1255.6 647.5 59.7 24.8 16.2 47.3 3.2 1.6 0.2

1Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

2Multiple applications to the same acreage were totaled as one application.

3CRP represents acres in the Conservation Reserve Program.