Table 5 Insecticide Applications: Type and Cost Cotton Insect Losses – 2005

% Acres

Acres

Cost/

Total cost

% Acres

Acres

Cost/

Total cost

treated by

treated by

Acre by

application

treated by

treated by

Acre by

application

State

Air

air

air

air

ground

ground

ground

ground

Alabama, North

35

94,500

$3.50

$330,750

80

216,000

$3.45

$745,200

Alabama, Central

15

12,000

$4.00

$48,000

75

60,000

$2.75

$165,000

Alabama, South

20

56,000

$4.00

$224,000

80

224,000

$3.00

$672,000

Arizona, BT

83

147,494

$6.00

$884,965

38

23,560

$7.50

$176,700

Arizona, nonBt

82

50,927

$6.00

$305,561

37

65,490

$7.50

$491,175

Arkansas, Southeast

90

397,800

$4.50

$1,790,100

80

353,600

$4.00

$1,414,400

Arkansas, Northeast

90

529,200

$4.00

$2,116,800

90

529,200

$3.00

$1,587,600

California

75

499,373

$6.00

$2,996,235

80

532,664

$7.50

$3,994,980

Florida

30

27,000

$4.75

$128,250

65

58,500

$5.25

$307,125

Georgia, Bt

45

483,750

$4.50

$2,176,875

80

860,000

$3.50

$3,010,000

Georgia, non-Bt

45

60,750

$4.50

$273,375

80

108,000

$3.50

$378,000

Kansas

15

12,750

$4.50

$57,375

25

21,250

$4.25

$90,313

Louisiana, Bt

90

486,000

$3.65

$1,773,900

100

540,000

$2.25

$1,215,000

Louisiana - nonBt

100

80,000

$3.60

$288,000

100

80,000

$2.25

$180,000

Mississippi, Hills Bt

30

87,000

$4.00

$348,000

70

535,500

$3.00

$1,606,500

Mississippi, Hills nonBt

30

21,000

$3.50

$73,500

70

535,500

$3.00

$1,606,500

Mississippi, Delta Bt

60

459,000

$3.50

$1,606,500

40

306,000

$3.00

$918,000

Mississippi, Delta nonBt

60

45,000

$3.50

$157,500

40

116,000

$3.00

$348,000

Missouri

10

44,000

$4.00

$176,000

80

352,000

$2.50

$880,000

New Mexico

85

57,167

$15.30

$874,651

34

22,867

$8.00

$182,934

North Carolina, Bt

15

12,000

$5.00

$60,000

90

72,000

$2.50

$180,000

North Carolina, nonBt

15

108,900

$5.00

$544,500

90

653,400

$2.50

$1,633,500

Oklahoma

55

133,640

$3.50

$467,740

45

109,342

$3.50

$382,697

South Carolina

30

79,500

$6.00

$477,000

70

185,500

$5.00

$927,500

Tennessee

20

123,200

$3.75

$462,000

90

554,400

$3.25

$1,801,800

Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley

80

149,302

$3.50

$522,558

100

186,628

$2.50

$466,570

Texas Northern Blacklands

60

36,000

$4.25

$153,000

40

24,000

$4.00

$96,000

Texas High Plains

45

1,557,000

$4.00

$6,228,000

65

2,249,000

$3.50

$7,871,500

Texas Southern Blacklands

25

29,128

$4.50

$131,074

91

106,024

$3.50

$371,084

Texas Far West

18

82,260

$4.62

$380,041

5

22,850

$3.43

$78,376

Texas Northern Rolling Plains

5

25,000

$4.00

$100,000

50

250,000

$4.00

$1,000,000

Texas Southern Rolling Plains

25

112,944

$4.50

$508,246

55

248,476

$4.50

$1,118,141

Texas Lower Coastal Bend

18

36,815

$4.00

$147,258

82

172,503

$2.00

$345,005

Texas Upper Coastal Bend

20

105,184

$3.95

$415,477

80

420,736

$2.00

$841,472

Virginia

7

6,510

$6.50

$42,315

93

86,490

$4.19

$361,961

Total US

44

6,248,092

$4.36

$27,269,546

82

10,881,479

$3.44

$37,445,031