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

ER 43
1998

Table 1C. Acreage planted, acreage treated, and percentage of planted acreage treated with pesticides in crops. North Dakota, 1989.

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 10800.0 5133.3 4179.9 10036.8 349.8 171.5 - 47.5 38.7 92.9 3.2 1.6 -
Barley 2800.0 1505.4 1193.1 2526.1 104.5 37.1 - 53.8 42.6 90.2 3.7 1.3 -
Oat 1150.0 149.6 126.3 573.8 8.6 - - 13.0 11.0 49.9 0.7 - -
Flax 170.0 19.2 7.4 100.3 4.7 - - 11.3 4.3 59.0 2.7 - -
Corn 880.0 880.0 47.6 638.0 90.8 - - 100.0 5.4 72.5 10.3 - -
Sunflower 1320.0 979.1 87.6 1197.4 674.9 30.0 3.1 74.2 6.6 90.7 51.1 2.3 0.2
Soybean 640.0 76.7 34.3 586.5 147.1 - - 12.0 5.7 91.6 23.0 - -
Dry bean 500.0 391.6 4.2 461.1 45.7 5.4 1.5 78.3 0.8 92.2 9.1 1.1 0.3
Potato 140.0 106.7 102.1 51.9 132.2 108.6 14.4 76.2 72.9 37.1 94.4 77.6 10.3
Sugarbeet 180.2 180.2 6.6 161.0 113.7 44.1 - 100.0 3.6 89.4 63.1 24.5 -
Alfalfa hay 1500.0 12.7 0.2 4.3 19.4 - - 0.8 0.0 0.3 1.3 - -
Other hay 1900.0 7.8 - 10.4 1.1 - - 0.4 - 0.5 0.1 - -
Pasture 10206.2 4.6 4.0 128.5 7.2 - - 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.1 - -
Summer fallow 4200.0 3.8 1.2 637.7 6.2 - - 0.1 0.0 15.2 0.1 - -
CRP3 2948.5 11.3 - 254.8 56.2 - - 0.4 0.0 8.6 1.9 - -
Total 39334.9 9462.0 5794.5 17368.6 1762.1 396.7 19.0 24.1 14.7 44.2 4.5 1.0 0.0

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.