Pesticide Use and Pest Management Practices
for Major Crops in North Dakota 1996

 ER 43
1998

Table 4. ON-FARM SEED TREATMENT: Acres and percent of crop with various seed treatment products and methods of seed treatment for selected crops. North Dakota, 1996.

Treatment Acres
seeded1		 Acres
seeded		 Treatment method
Drill box Auger Other
(1000) (%) (%) (%) (%)

Wheat
Captan+Diazinon 7.0 0.1 - 100.0 -
Captan+Thiabendazole 22.0 0.2 - 100.0 -
Carboxin 1200.0 9.5 14.0 77.1 8.9
Carboxin+Imazalil+Thiabendazole 272.7 2.2 10.3 79.7 9.9
Carboxin+Maneb+Lindane 197.2 1.6 26.3 73.7 -
Carboxin+Thiram 1159.0 9.1 9.8 86.5 3.7
Carboxin+Thiram+Lindane 86.6 0.7 21.7 78.3 -
Chlorpyifos 7.2 0.1 100.0 - -
Diazinon 6.8 0.1 - 100.0 -
Difenoconazole 143.1 1.1 6.3 93.7 -
Formaldehyde 23.5 0.2 - 79.2 20.8
Imazalil 136.5 1.1 11.9 83.5 4.6
Lindane 189.8 1.5 20.2 71.1 8.7
Mancozeb 45.3 0.4 - 100.0 -
Maneb 9.1 0.1 69.0 20.7 10.3
Maneb+Lindane 1678.5 13.2 18.8 74.7 6.4
Maneb+Thiabendazole 3.0 0.0 - 100.0 -
Metalaxyl 46.5 0.4 - 80.9 19.1
Other seed treatment 6.6 0.1 - 100.0 -
PCNB 8.2 0.1 100.0 - -
Thiram 47.0 0.4 4.3 76.8 18.9
Total 5295.8 41.8 14.8 78.9 6.3

Barley
Benomyl 0.6 0.0 100.0 - -
Captan 1.4 0.1 100.0 - -
Captan+Thiabendazole 2.7 0.1 - 100.0 -
Carboxin 398.4 15.0 16.5 78.5 5.0
Carboxin+Imazalil+Thiabendazole 39.2 1.5 - 94.0 6.0
Carboxin+Maneb+Lindane 43.2 1.6 31.2 68.8 -
Carboxin+Thiram 273.3 10.3 9.9 87.7 2.4
Carboxin+Thiram+Lindane 28.6 1.1 15.4 84.6 -
Difenoconazole 7.9 0.3 - 100.0 -
Imazalil 23.2 0.9 8.9 85.3 5.7
Lindane 35.7 1.3 28.3 66.1 5.6
Mancozeb 2.3 0.1 - 100.0 -
Maneb 4.8 0.2 12.2 78.3 9.5
Maneb+Lindane 322.1 12.2 18.0 80.3 1.7
Maneb+Thiabendazole 0.7 0.0 - 100.0 -
PCNB 1.0 0.0 - 100.0 -
Thiram 13.2 0.5 - 100.0 -
Total 1198.2 45.2 15.3 81.5 3.2

Oat
Carboxin 7.9 1.5 11.0 84.7 4.3
Carboxin+Imazalil+Thiabendazole 0.1 0.0 - 100.0 -
Carboxin+Thiram 4.7 0.9 23.9 67.4 8.8
Formaldehyde 1.4 0.3 - 49.9 50.1
Lindane 5.7 1.1 - 100.0 -
Maneb+Lindane 15.8 3.0 23.1 72.2 4.7
Total 35.6 6.7 15.9 78.1 6.1

Flax
Carboxin+Thiram 0.3 0.4 100.0 - -
Maneb+Lindane 1.2 1.5 100.0 - -
Total 1.6 2.0 100.0 - -

Soybean
Captan+Thiabendazole 1.6 0.2 - 100.0 -
Carboxin 3.4 0.4 - 100.0 -
Carboxin+Diazinon+Lindane 0.5 0.1 - - 100.0
Carboxin+Imazalil+Thiabendazole 6.5 0.8 - 100.0 -
Carboxin+Thiram 21.4 2.5 7.0 78.2 14.9
Carboxin+Thiram+Lindane 0.6 0.1 - 100.0 -
Maneb+Lindane 2.8 0.3 100.0 - -
Other seed Treatment 0.5 0.1 - 100.0 -
Total 37.3 2.9 11.4 78.8 9.8

Potato
Mancozeb 33.2 24.8 - 44.2 55.8
Maneb+Streptomycin+Bark 24.4 18.2 45.4 14.4 40.2
Thiabendazole 3.5 2.6 - 100.0 -
Thiophanate methyl 0.5 0.4 - - 100.0
Total 61.6 46.0 18.0 35.2 46.8

1Acres reported seeded with treated seed include multiple applications to the same seed and seed treatment products applied as a tank mixture were totaled separately unless applied as a commercial premix.