Table 4 Bt Cotton Acres and Costs Cotton Insec Losses-2005

State

Number acres

Bt cost/Acre

Average/ all Acres

Total

Cost

% population Bollworm

Acres Bt cotton sprayed

# bollworm

appli to Bt

Alabama, North

190,000

$15.00

$10.56

$2,850,000

85

230,000

1.00

Alabama, Central

56,000

$27.00

$18.90

$1,512,000

80

10,000

1.00

Alabama, South

224,000

$25.00

$20.00

$5,600,000

60

112,000

1.00

Arizona, BT

177,000

$34.00

$25.18

$6,018,000

90

3,684

0.01

Arizona, nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

90

3,684

0.01

Arkansas, Southeast

320,000

$28.00

$20.27

$8,960,000

95

331,500

1.70

Arkansas, Northeast

446,000

$22.00

$16.69

$9,812,000

95

300,000

1.00

California

30,000

$9.00

$0.41

$270,000

100

0

0.00

Florida

76,300

$24.00

$20.35

$1,831,200

80

3,400

1.00

Georgia, Bt

1,075,000

$19.00

$16.88

$20,425,000

100

500,000

1.20

Georgia, non-Bt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

50

0

0.00

Kansas

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

100

0

0.00

Louisiana, Bt

520,000

$12.50

$10.48

$6,500,000

100

175,000

0.80

Louisiana - nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

75

0

0.00

Mississippi, Hills Bt

290,000

$21.00

$16.92

$6,090,000

95

0

0.00

Mississippi, Hills nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

85

0

0.00

Mississippi, Delta Bt

765,000

$22.00

$20.04

$16,830,000

95

617,737

1.00

Mississippi, Delta nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

85

139,200

1.00

Missouri

150,000

$17.25

$5.88

$2,587,500

95

5,000

1.00

New Mexico

14,200

$22.00

$4.65

$312,400

100

2,700

1.00

North Carolina, Bt

726,000

$20.00

$18.01

$14,520,000

95

0

0.00

North Carolina, nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

100

72,000

1.40

Oklahoma

90,606

$17.00

$6.34

$1,540,302

89

11,778

1.00

South Carolina

225,250

$18.50

$15.73

$4,167,125

98

225,250

1.00

Tennessee

585,500

$16.00

$7.60

$9,368,000

92

105,000

1.10

Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley

89,581

$30.00

$14.40

$2,687,430

95

0

0.00

Texas Northern Blacklands

50,000

$21.00

$17.50

$1,050,000

85

0

0.00

Texas High Plains

449,800

$20.00

$2.60

$8,996,000

99

32,000

1.00

Texas Southern Blacklands

98,000

$18.00

$15.14

$1,764,000

85

6,000

1.00

Texas Far West

160,195

$14.00

$4.91

$2,242,730

100

5,000

1.00

Texas Northern Rolling Plains

100,000

$10.00

$2.00

$1,000,000

99

5,000

1.00

Texas Southern Rolling Plains

185,887

$11.00

$4.53

$2,044,757

96

5,000

1.00

Texas Lower Coastal Bend

91,153

$14.00

$6.07

$1,276,142

93

56,799

1.00

Texas Upper Coastal Bend

126,221

$13.80

$3.31

$1,741,850

89

75,621

1.00

Virginia

83,700

$22.00

$19.80

$1,841,400

90

16,740

0.90