Table 23E

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

ER 43
1998

Table 23E. INSECTICIDE usage in North Dakota, 1978¹.

			Applicator		Method of application
	Acres treated	Acres treated	Farm operator	Custom	Method of application
	Acres treated	Acres treated	Farm operator	Custom	Aerial	Ground
	(1000)	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)
Insecticide
Aldicarb	31.3	0.1	99	1	0	100
Azinphos-methyl	72.8	0.2	97	3	12	88
Carbaryl	4.6	0.0	83	17	11	89
Carbofuran	12.4	0.0	100	0	0	100
Chlordane	4.9	0.0	100	0	0	100
Diazinon	2.5	0.0	100	0	0	100
Disulfoton	21.3	0.0	100	0	0	100
Endosulfan	11.1	0.0	90	10	58	42
Ethoprop	1.4	0.0	100	0	0	0
Fonofos	17.7	0.0	98	2	0	94
Methamidophos	0.7	0.0	100	0	0	100
Monocrotophos	15.1	0.0	100	0	0	100
Methyl parathion	17.7	0.0	55	45	67	33
Methyl parathion (encap)	1.0	0.0	0	100	100	0
Malathion	6.3	0.0	12	88	47	30
Methidathion	9.9	0.0	40	60	60	40
Naled	0.4	0.0	100	100	0
Phorate	30.6	0.0	96	4	2	98
Phosphamidon	9.1	0.0	71	29	29	71
Terbufos	24.6	0.0	100	0	0	100
Trichlorafon	0.2	0.0	100	0	0	100
Toxaphene	65.1	0.2	50	50	49	50
Unknown	4.9	0.0	63	37	37	63
Total	365.5	1.1	83	17	21	79

¹Nalewaja, J. D., A. G. Dexter, J. Buchli, W. Hamlin, and G. Kimmet. 1980. Pesticide Usage in Major North Dakota Crops. North Dakota State University in cooperation with North Dakota Crop and Livestock Reporting Service, Agronomy Report 1. 33p.