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

ER 43
1998

Table 2. Acreage planted, acreage treated, and percentage of planted acreage treated with pesticides in agricultural statistics districts, North Dakota, 1996.

 

District

 

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) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)
 
Northwest 5147.6 1447.0 1225.4 2661.1 40.5 43.4 0.0 28.1 23.8 51.7 0.8 0.8 0.0
North Central 3698.3 1172.7 998.5 1943.9 115.2 20.8 0.0 31.7 27.0 52.6 3.1 0.6 0.0
Northeast 4710.5 2308.2 1345.4 3659.6 556.8 453.8 47.1 49.0 28.6 77.7 11.8 9.6 1.0
West Central 4635.0 625.9 499.2 1241.2 20.7 8.1 0.0 13.5 10.8 26.8 0.4 0.2 0.0
Central 4010.3 899.0 569.9 1950.3 112.2 10.4 3.1 22.4 14.2 48.6 2.8 0.3 0.1
East Central 3182.6 1612.8 837.6 2572.9 188.1 70.7 7.8 50.7 26.3 80.8 5.9 2.2 0.2
Southwest 5182.9 539.0 439.8 1302.3 34.2 0.0 0.1 10.4 8.5 25.1 0.7 0.0 0.0
South Central 4868.5 229.6 109.0 953.2 42.8 1.6 1.6 4.7 2.2 19.6 0.9 0.0 0.0
Southeast 4247.3 998.0 386.2 2480.5 145.1 38.7 0.0 23.5 9.1 58.4 3.4 0.9 0.0

1Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

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