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

 ER 43
1998

Table 20. SUMMER FALLOW: 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 56.1 2.8 93.1 4.4 2.5 92.3 7.7 6.6 93.4
Bromoxynil 0.3 0.0 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Bromoxynil+MCPA 0.3 0.0 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Clopyralid+2,4-D 2.6 0.1 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Dicamba 26.9 1.3 83.8 16.2 - 93.5 6.5 3.0 97.0
Ethalfluralin 0.3 0.0 - 100.0 - 100.0 - - 100.0
Glyphosate 197.9 9.9 80.1 18.9 1.0 86.5 13.5 5.3 94.7
Glyphosate+2,4-D 6.8 0.3 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Glyphosate+Dicamba 374.6 18.7 55.4 44.6 - 97.3 2.7 2.0 98.0
MCPA 3.9 0.2 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Metsulfuron 4.1 0.2 27.4 72.6 - 100.0 - - 100.0
Picloram 2.7 0.1 86.2 13.8 - 98.2 1.8 - 100.0
Thifensulfuron 0.1 0.0 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Triallate 0.8 0.0 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Triasulfuron 19.0 1.0 42.9 57.1 - 100.0 - - 100.0
Tribenuron 0.6 0.0 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Trifluralin 17.9 0.9 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
All Herbicides 715.0 35.7 68.0 31.6 0.5 94.0 6.0 3.1 96.9

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.