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

 ER 43
1998

Table 23C. INSECTICIDE usage in North Dakota, 19891.

 

 

 Applicator Method of
application
Acres
treated		 Acres
treated		 Applications Farm
operator		 Custom
1 2 3 4 Aerial Ground
(1000) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)

Insecticide
Acephate 0.1 0.0 100.0 - - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Aldicarb 12.5 0.0 100.0 - - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Azinphos-methyl 0.6 0.0 100.0 - - - - 100.0 100.0 -
Carbaryl 80.3 0.2 95.8 1.3 2.8 - 41.7 58.3 57.7 42.3
Carbofuran 530.4 1.3 78.8 18.1 2.6 0.5 58.5 41.5 46.5 53.5
Chlordane 0.1 0.0 - 100.0 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Chlorpyrifos 71.9 0.2 97.4 2.6 - - 72.7 27.3 25.1 74.9
Dimethoate 14.2 0.0 100.0 - - - 91.1 8.9 5.6 94.4
Disulfoton 4.1 0.0 100.0 - - - - 100.0 100.0 -
Encapsulated methyl parathion 12.6 0.0 88.9 11.1 - - 45.5 54.5 54.5 45.5
Endosulfan 33.7 0.1 56.5 43.5 - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Esfenvalerate 261.4 0.7 75.5 15.1 1.6 7.7 55.9 44.1 44.2 54.8
Ethyl parathion 348.1 0.9 81.1 18.9 - - 8.7 91.3 95.1 4.9
Fenvalerate 280.4 0.7 73.8 24.4 1.8 - 48.7 51.3 59.3 40.7
Fonofos 1.9 0.0 100.0 - - - 79.7 20.3 20.3 79.7
Malathion 101.4 0.3 67.7 32.3 - - 27.8 72.2 71.9 28.1
Methidathion 1.6 0.0 100.0 - - - - 100.0 100.0 -
Methyl parathion 197.9 0.5 76.9 11.5 11.6 - 4.4 95.6 99.1 0.9
Oxamyl 2.5 0.0 100.0 - - - 100.0 - - 100.0
Phorate 68.8 0.2 100.0 - - - 100.0 - 2.4 97.6
Phosphamidon 68.3 0.2 84.2 15.8 - - 87.6 12.4 12.4 87.6
Pyrethroid 4.4 0.0 100.0 - - - 64.8 35.2 64.8 35.2
Terbufos 132.1 0.3 98.9 1.1 - - 94.9 5.1 - 100.1
Trichlorafon 4.4 0.0 100.0 - - - - 100.0 100.0 -
Total 2233.7 5.7 80.8 16.0 2.2 1.0 48.0 52.0 54.9 45.1

1McMullen, M.P., A.G. Dexter, J.D. Nalewaja, and G. Dahl. 1990. Pesticide Use on Major Crops in North Dakota, 1989.  North Dakota State University in cooperation with North Dakota Crop and Livestock Reporting Service, Extension Report No. 1.