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


Wheat

Northwest 2244.5 1211.0 1072.0 2151.8 25.1 40.1 0.0 54.0 47.8 95.9 1.1 1.8 0.0
North Central 1325.0 715.3 684.8 1230.4 58.7 15.9 0.0 54.0 51.7 92.9 4.4 1.2 0.0
Northeast 2091.7 1142.2 928.7 2032.5 307.2 152.3 3.3 54.6 44.4 97.2 14.7 7.3 0.2
West Central 1098.0 487.9 447.2 986.3 2.1 1.8 - 44.4 40.7 89.8 0.2 0.2 -
Central 1299.0 499.5 467.8 1247.7 20.5 2.5 0.0 38.5 36.0 96.1 1.6 0.2 0.0
East Central 1336.0 804.9 627.9 1272.8 81.9 20.6 0.0 60.2 47.0 95.3 6.1 1.5 0.0
Southwest 1155.8 461.5 404.0 1021.6 23.3 0.0 - 39.9 35.0 88.4 2.0 0.0 -
South Central 899.0 120.7 97.4 718.7 22.7 - - 13.4 10.8 79.9 2.5 - -
Southeast 1231.0 294.9 266.4 1148.1 0.0 11.4 0.0 24.0 21.6 93.3 0.0 0.9 0.0

Total

12680.0 5737.9 4996.3 11809.8 541.5 244.6 3.3 45.3 39.4 93.1 4.3 1.9 0.0

1Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

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