Table 6                                                                   Cotton Insect Monitoring Costs                                            Cotton Insect Losses-2004

 

 

Acres

Times per week

 

wt Avg Cost

 

Cost per

 

Total

State

Scouted

Scouted

over all acres

 scouted acre

Cost

 Alabama, North

210,000

1.30

$4.60

$5.40

$1,134,000

 Alabama, South

20,000

1.00

$1.63

$6.50

$130,000

 Alabama, Central

104,000

1.10

$3.00

$7.50

$780,000

 Arizona, BT

182,000

1.80

$7.54

$7.89

$1,435,980

 Arizona, nonBt

45,500

1.90

$7.65

$8.00

$364,000

 Arkansas, Southeast

335,000

1.50

$7.65

$8.50

$2,847,500

 Arkansas, Northeast

445,000

1.00

$5.58

$7.00

$3,115,000

 California

700,000

1.00

$3.79

$4.00

$2,800,000

 Florida

65,800

1.80

$7.14

$10.20

$671,160

 Georgia, Bt

714,000

1.20

$5.60

$8.00

$5,712,000

 Georgia, non-Bt

168,000

1.70

$5.95

$8.50

$1,428,000

 Kansas

70

2.00

$0.01

$8.00

$560

 Louisiana, Bt

432,814

1.70

$7.79

$8.31

$3,596,684

 Louisiana - nonBt

32,316

1.70

$7.73

$8.31

$268,546

 Mississippi, Hills Bt

182,000

1.00

$5.25

$7.50

$1,365,000

 Mississippi, Hills nonBt

45,500

1.00

$5.25

$7.50

$341,250

Mississippi Delta Bt

662,625

1.50

$7.13

$7.50

$4,969,688

 Mississippi, Delta nonBt

73,625

1.50

$7.13

$7.50

$552,188

 Missouri

327,250

1.00

$5.10

$6.00

$1,963,500

 New Mexico

43,000

1.00

$4.79

$8.00

$344,000

 North Carolina, Bt

450,000

0.70

$5.63

$7.50

$3,375,000

 North Carolina, nonBt

110,000

1.40

$6.76

$7.50

$825,000

 Oklahoma

120,000

1.00

$3.02

$5.05

$606,000

 South Carolina

205,000

1.50

$7.52

$8.00

$1,640,000

 Tennessee, Bt

309,000

1.20

$4.55

$7.00

$2,163,000

 Tennessee, nonBt

22,750

1.20

$4.55

$7.00

$159,250

 Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley

175,000

1.00

$4.43

$5.25

$918,750

 Texas Northern Blacklands

49,000

1.00

$3.80

$4.50

$220,500

 Texas High Plains

570,000

1.00

$0.81

$4.75

$2,707,500

 Texas Southern Blacklands

118,000

1.00

$3.63

$4.00

$472,000

 Texas Far West

18,000

1.00

$0.27

$7.33

$131,940

 Texas Northern Rolling Plains

20,000

1.00

$0.30

$6.00

$120,000

 Texas Southern Rolling Plains

100,000

1.00

$0.96

$6.00

$600,000

 Texas Lower Coastal Bend

448,000

1.20

$4.73

$5.50

$2,464,000

 Texas Upper Coastal Bend

158,100

1.50

$6.38

$7.50

$1,185,750

 Virginia

2,000

1.00

$0.21

$8.50

$17,000

Total US

7,662,350

1.22

$3.75

$6.71

$51,418,035