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) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%)

Corn
Northwest 5.0 5.0 - 3.5 - - - 100.0 - 70.1 - - -
North Central 24.0 21.9 3.1 14.8 4.1 - - 91.2 13.0 61.6 17.2 - -
Northeast 48.0 44.1 - 43.1 - - - 91.9 - 89.8 - - -
West Central 32.0 23.0 0.4 16.6 - - - 71.8 1.4 51.8 - - -
Central 63.0 45.3 3.7 52.8 - - - 71.9 5.9 83.8 - - -
East Central 160.0 136.8 3.0 144.0 2.6 - - 85.5 1.9 90.0 1.6 - -
Southwest 23.0 13.2 - 11.3 1.1 - 0.0 57.4 - 49.2 4.7 - 0.0
South Central 85.0 64.7 - 23.2 3.7 1.6 1.6 76.1 - 27.3 4.3 1.9 1.9
Southeast 460.0 360.6 70.1 429.4 44.1 - 0.0 78.4 15.2 93.3 9.6 - 0.0
Total 900.0 714.6 80.4 738.6 55.6 1.6 1.6 79.4 8.9 82.1 6.2 0.2 0.2

1Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

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