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

Summer fallow
Northwest 660.0 10.4 - 153.7 - - - 1.6 - 23.3 - - -
North Central 140.0 1.2 - 37.6 - - - 0.9 - 26.8 - - -
Northeast 160.0 0.2 - 23.4 - - - 0.1 - 14.6 - - -
West Central 315.0 0.8 - 63.9 0.0 - - 0.3 - 20.3 0.0 - -
Central 100.0 0.5 - 22.6 0.0 - - 0.5 - 22.6 0.0 - -
East Central 40.0 0.3 - 6.3 - - - 0.7 - 15.6 - - -
Southwest 340.0 0.4 - 130.9 - - - 0.1 - 38.5 - - -
South Central 160.0 - - 56.6 - - - - - 35.4 - - -
Southeast 85.0 - - 9.4 - - - - - 11.0 - - -
Total 2000.0 13.7 - 504.3 0.0 - - 0.7 - 25.2 0.0 - -

1Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

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