Field Corn

Active Ingredient Used per Area Grown (kg/ha)

  1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008
all herbicides 3.47 2.90 2.90 2.28 1.77 1.90

Soybeans

Active Ingredient Used per Area Grown (kg/ha)

  1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008
all herbicides 3.52 3.27 1.65 1.50 1.48 1.70

Grains

Active Ingredient Used per Area Grown (kg/ha)

  1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008
all herbicides 0.44 0.58 0.72 0.56 0.58 0.69

Total Field Crops

Active Ingredient Used per Area Grown (kg/ha)

  1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008
all herbicides 1.33 1.31 1.13 1.01 0.86 0.96
all pesticides 1.92 1.63 1.42 1.15 1.00 1.03

Total Fruit

Active Ingredient Used per Area Grown (kg/ha)

  1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008
all fungicides 14.47 14.81 15.10 17.20 8.32 20.83
all pesticides 19.81 20.64 20.73 20.34 9.87 24.22

Total Vegetables

Active Ingredient Used per Area Grown (kg/ha)

  1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008
all pesticides 4.89 6.01 5.91 4.72 2.65 5.40

Total Field Crops, Fruit and Vegetables

Active Ingredient Used per Area Grown (kg/ha)

  1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008
all pesticides 2.10 1.85 1.66 1.35 1.09 1.23