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

 ER 43
1998

Table 3. Acreage planted, acreage treated, and percentage of planted acreage treated with pesticides in crop reporting districts of 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) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)

Alfalfa hay
Northwest 140.0 2.0 0.2 0.9 0.7 - - 1.4 0.2 0.7 0.5 - -
North Central 154.0 6.0 - 1.0 3.7 - - 3.9 - 0.6 2.4 - -
Northeast 43.0 0.7 0.2 0.2 - - - 1.7 0.5 0.5 - - -
West Central 268.0 0.8 - - 2.4 - - 0.3 - - 0.9 - -
Central 210.0 - - 0.0 0.0 - - - - 0.0 0.0 - -
East Central 50.0 - - 0.1 0.5 - - - - 0.2 1.0 - -
Southwest 332.0 - - 0.9 0.7 - - - - 0.3 0.2 - -
South Central 335.0 4.9 - 1.8 0.1 - - 1.5 - 0.5 0.0 - -
Southeast 168.0 1.9 - 1.2 - - - 1.1 - 0.7 - - -
Total 1700.0 16.2 0.5 6.1 8.1 - - 1.0 0.0 0.4 0.5 - -

1Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

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