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Farmers' Use of Pesticides in 1971 -- Extent of Crop Use

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  • Andrilenas, Paul A.

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Over half of all U.S. farmers use pesticides to control crop pests on about 50 percent of their cropland acres. In 1971, about 45 percent of the farmers growing crops used herbicides, 26 percent used insecticides, 6 percent used fungicides, 2 percent used nematocides, and 10 percent used other pesticides (including defoliants, desiccants, growth regulators, miticides, and rodenticides). Farmers treated 41 percent of cropland acres (not including pasture and rangeland) with herbicides, and 15 percent with insecticides, 2 percent with fungicides, less than 1 percent with nematocides, and about 1 percent with other pesticides.

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  • Andrilenas, Paul A., 1975. "Farmers' Use of Pesticides in 1971 -- Extent of Crop Use," Agricultural Economic Reports 307514, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:307514
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307514
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    1. Liapis, Peter S., 1980. "Controlling Heliothis spp. on Cotton Through the Release of Trichogramma Pretiosum and Applications of Bacillus Thuringiensis: An Economic Assessment," Economics Statistics and Cooperative Services (ESCS) Reports 335366, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Eichers, Theodore R., 1980. "The Farm Pesticide Industry," Agricultural Economic Reports 305703, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    3. Carlson, Gerald A., 1980. "Economic and Biological Variables Affecting Demand for Publicly and Privately Provided Pest Information," 1980 Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 278422, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    4. Spinks, Thomas & Dahl, Dale C., 1981. "Inputs Used in U.S. Farm Production: A Bibliography of Selected Economic Studies, 1950-80," Economics and Statistics Services (ESS) Reports 319963, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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