Sugarbeet

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
	Acres planted¹	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)	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)
Sugarbeet
Northwest	4.2	4.2	0.8	4.2	2.4	0.4	-	100.0	18.5	100.0	57.9	8.8	-
Northeast	127.9	127.9	0.0	123.9	53.8	87.1	-	100.0	0.0	96.9	42.0	68.1	-
West Central	9.0	9.0	0.5	8.5	7.4	6.3	0.0	100.0	5.6	94.6	82.4	70.3	0.0
East Central	55.6	55.6	-	55.2	24.8	32.6	0.2	100.0	-	99.3	44.7	58.6	0.4
Southeast	29.9	29.9	-	28.1	1.6	15.2	-	100.0	-	93.8	5.4	50.7	-
Total	226.6	226.6	1.3	219.9	90.1	141.5	0.2	100.0	0.6	97.0	39.8	62.5	0.1

¹Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

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