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

Sunflower
Northwest 37.3 32.8 - 27.2 12.3 - - 88.0 - 72.9 32.9 - -
North Central 99.0 77.2 11.8 77.7 36.2 0.0 - 78.0 12.0 78.5 36.6 0.0 -
Northeast 200.0 158.2 7.6 157.2 90.4 - 0.0 79.1 3.8 78.6 45.2 - 0.0
West Central 16.1 12.7 - 12.7 7.6 - - 79.1 - 79.1 46.9 - -
Central 263.0 202.9 4.8 221.5 90.1 - - 77.1 1.8 84.2 34.2 - -
East Central 238.0 188.4 5.5 202.0 60.7 0.5 - 79.2 2.3 84.9 25.5 0.2 -
Southwest 9.2 6.5 - 9.2 5.0 - - 70.3 - 100.0 54.5 - -
South Central 51.4 24.4 - 43.1 16.3 - - 47.5 - 83.8 31.7 - -
Southeast 266.0 198.9 6.5 217.0 87.6 0.0 0.0 74.8 2.4 81.6 32.9 0.0 0.0
Total 1180.0 902.1 36.2 967.5 406.0 0.5 0.0 76.5 3.1 82.0 34.4 0.0 0.0

1Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

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