Biologic and Economic Assessment of Phorate and Terbufos: Report of the Phorate and Terbufos Assessment Teams

摘要

In June 1990, the National Agricultural Pesticide Impact Assessment Program began an assessment of phorate and terbufos usage in U.S. agriculture. At the conclusion of the assessment, a team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and State Land-Grant Universities prepared a report that describes the uses of both insecticides by U.S. agriculture and describes the economic and social benefits of those uses to the United States. Phorate and terbufos are used to control a number of important crop pests in the United States. The estimated economic impact caused by the cancellation of phorate would be an annual loss of $21 million. Corn and potato producers would sustain the greatest economic loss if phorate were no longer available for pest management. The economic impact caused by the cancellation of terbufos would be an annual loss of $127 million, including an $118 million loss by corn producers and consumers. The aggregate economic effect on producers and consumers caused by the cancellation of both phorate and terbufos would be an annual loss of $168 million.