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

 ER 43
1998

Table 1B. Acreage planted, acreage treated, and percentage of planted acreage treated with pesticides in crops. North Dakota, 1992.

 

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 11600.0 5446.6 4409.0 10454.9 100.9 291.9 1.2 47.0 38.0 90.1 0.9 2.5 0.0
Barley 2700.0 1538.5 1199.2 2386.5 19.4 79.4 - 57.0 44.4 88.4 0.7 2.9 -
Oat 780.0 55.0 35.1 254.7 2.0 0.0 0.5 7.0 4.5 32.7 0.3 0.0 0.1
Flax 145.0 10.7 2.3 95.2 2.2 - - 7.3 1.6 65.7 1.5 - -
Corn 1000.0 986.3 56.5 797.4 82.4 0.0 - 98.6 5.7 79.7 8.2 0.0 -
Sunflower 1225.0 988.5 51.8 1096.4 332.0 1.3 - 80.7 4.2 89.5 27.1 0.1 -
Soybean 700.0 100.4 19.9 687.2 7.5 - - 14.3 2.8 98.2 1.1 - -
Dry bean 440.0 359.4 0.7 404.6 0.2 23.6 7.4 81.7 0.2 92.0 0.0 5.4 1.7
Potato 146.0 107.6 103.3 45.4 139.6 129.5 55.1 73.7 70.8 31.1 95.6 88.7 37.7
Sugarbeet 195.5 195.5 - 188.8 139.4 61.7 - 100.0 - 96.6 71.3 31.6 -
Alfalfa hay 1300.0 16.4 - 3.9 7.2 - - 1.3 - 0.3 0.6 - -
Other hay 1600.0 2.6 - 23.8 6.2 - - 0.2 - 1.5 0.4 - -
Pasture 11938.2 1.3 - 152.7 15.4 - - 0.0 - 1.3 0.1 - -
Summer fallow 4100.0 10.2 0.0 896.6 0.2 0.7 0.2 0.2 0.0 21.9 0.0 0.0 0.0
CRP3 2898.7 10.1 - 85.0 18.2 - - 0.3 - 2.9 0.6 - -
Total 40768.4 9828.9 5877.8 17573.2 872.9 588.1 64.3 24.1 14.4 43.1 2.1 1.4 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.