Table 6 Cotton insect monitoring costs Cotton Insect Losses 2003

Acres  Times per week wt Avg Cost Cost per Total 
State Scouted Scouted over all acres  scouted acre Cost
 Alabama, North
200,000 1.30 $2.58 $5.40 $1,080,000
 Alabama, South
130,000 1.00 $4.06 $7.50 $975,000
 Alabama, Central
40,000 1.00 $7.72 $6.50 $260,000
 Arizona, nonBT
53,575 1.70 $7.99 $8.02 $429,672
 Arizona, Bt
144,489 1.70 $7.38 $7.79 $1,125,569
 Arkansas, Southeast
400,000 1.50 $7.23 $8.50 $3,400,000
 Arkansas, Northeast
450,000 1.20 $6.75 $7.00 $3,150,000
 California
600,000 1.20 $8.26 $9.00 $5,400,000
 Florida
90,000 1.20 $7.65 $9.25 $832,500
 Georgia, Bt
750,000 1.20 $4.18 $8.00 $6,000,000
 Georgia, non-Bt
350,000 1.50 $6.16 $8.50 $2,975,000
 Kansas
80,000 1.00 $4.40 $7.00 $560,000
 Louisiana, Bt
404,040 1.60 $4.40 $9.25 $3,737,370
 Louisiana - nonBt
76,960 1.60 $7.16 $9.25 $711,880
 Mississippi, Hills
300,000 1.50 $7.51 $7.00 $2,100,000
 Mississippi, Delta
650,000 1.50 $4.97 $7.00 $4,550,000
 Missouri
342,732 1.00 $7.97 $5.71 $1,957,000
 New Mexico
22,000 1.00 $5.10 $9.00 $198,000
 North Carolina, nonBt
183,000 1.40 $2.81 $7.50 $1,372,500
 North Carolina, Bt
460,000 0.70 $5.58 $7.50 $3,450,000
 Oklahoma
100,000 1.00 $5.84 $5.15 $515,000
 South Carolina, Bt
140,000 1.50 $2.71 $7.50 $1,050,000
 South Carolina, non-Bt
55,000 1.50 $8.84 $7.50 $412,500
 Tennessee, Bt
300,000 1.20 $10.63 $7.00 $2,100,000
 Tennessee, nonBt
53,000 1.20 $5.00 $7.00 $371,000
 Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley
150,000 0.50 $4.59 $5.00 $750,000
 Texas Northern Blacklands
49,000 1.00 $4.03 $4.50 $220,500
 Texas High Plains
500,000 1.10 $2.12 $4.75 $2,375,000
 Texas Southern Blacklands
60,000 1.00 $2.86 $5.25 $315,000
 Texas Far West
60,000 1.30 $1.25 $12.50 $750,000
 Texas Northern Rolling Planins
25,000 1.00 $0.63 $4.00 $100,000
 Texas Southern Rolling Plains
100,000 1.00 $0.75 $6.00 $600,000
 Texas Lower Coastal Bend
384,148 1.20 $0.33 $5.50 $2,112,814
 Texas Upper Coastal Bend
155,540 1.50 $6.28 $8.50 $1,322,090
 Virginia
5,000 1.50 $4.88 $8.50 $42,500
Total US 7,858,484 1.25 $4.56 $7.30 $57,398,987