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

Pasture
Northwest 1229.6 7.8 - 12.8 - - - 0.6 - 1.0 - - -
North Central 821.0 1.1 - 58.3 - - - 0.1 - 7.1 - - -
Northeast 256.3 0.9 - 1.4 - - - 0.3 - 0.5 - - -
West Central 2319.9 10.0 - 10.0 - - - 0.4 - 0.4 - - -
Central 1025.5 - - 23.5 - - - - - 2.3 - - -
East Central 204.0 4.4 0.0 6.9 0.0 - - 2.1 0.0 3.4 0.0 - -
Southwest 2543.6 - - 15.2 - - - - - 0.6 - - -
South Central 2603.8 - - 21.9 0.0 - - - - 0.8 0.0 - -
Southeast 934.5 - - 41.8 - - - - - 4.5 - - -
Total 11938.2 24.1 0.0 191.8 0.0 - - 0.2 0.0 1.6 0.0 - -

1Preliminary estimates by the North Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service.

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