Pesticide Use on Fall Potatoes in the United States, 1979

摘要

Growers treated more fall potatoes with insecticides than any other pesticide. Just over 1.0 million acres were included in the survey and 94 percent were treated with an insecticide. Potato farmers made 6.8 million acre-treatments, using 15.3 million pounds active ingredient of pesticides. Applying pesticides in single application was the most common practice. Tank-mix applications were used in 6 percent of the time. Each region used about the same amount of pesticides not considering nematicides. Nematicide use was largely in the Western region.