Table 4 Bt Cotton Acres and Costs Cotton Insec Losses-2006

State

Number acres

Bt cost/Acre

Average/ all Acres

Total

Cost

% population Bollworm

Acres Bt cotton sprayed

# bollworm

appli to Bt

Alabama, North

187000

$16.50

$11.56

$3,085,500

70

110000

1

Alabama, Central

56000

$26.50

$18.55

$1,484,000

65

1000

1

Alabama, South

224000

$25.00

$20.00

$5,600,000

60

30000

1

Arizona, BT

172035

$33.90

$213.36

$5,831,987

90

0

0

Arizona, nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

90

0

0

Arkansas, Southeast

415000

$21.00

$17.43

$8,715,000

90

325000

2

Arkansas, Northeast

540000

$18.00

$16.20

$9,720,000

90

375000

1.5

California

5000

$15.00

$0.14

$75,000

100

0

0

Florida

90000

$28.00

$24.00

$2,520,000

75

2000

1

Georgia

1231713

$19.00

$17.60

$23,402,547

70

300000

1.1

Kansas

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

100

0

0

Louisiana, Bt

588440

$12.00

$12.00

$7,061,280

100

529596

1.7

Louisiana - nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

100

0

0

Mississippi, Delta nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

90

0

0

Mississippi, Hills nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

90

0

0

Mississippi, Delta Bt

765000

$20.00

$20.00

$15,300,000

90

573750

1.1

Mississippi, Hills Bt

271552

$20.00

$20.00

$5,431,040

90

80750

0.8

Missouri

290000

$20.00

$11.49

$5,800,000

93

100

0.00

New Mexico

24800

$22.00

$8.54

$545,600

100

3400

1

North Carolina, nonBt

0

$0.00

$0.00

$0

90

0

0

North Carolina, Bt

777,000

$11.63

$11.63

$9,036,510

100

724,000

1.2

Oklahoma

207,992

$9.00

$5.94

$1,871,928

78

5,000

1

South Carolina

274160

$10.00

$9.20

$2,741,600

95

235000

1

Tennessee

636500

$12.60

$11.97

$8,019,900

88

457000

1.4

Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley

5645

$30.00

$0.18

$169,350

95

0

0

Texas Northern Blacklands

88230

$20.00

$18.20

$1,764,600

90

1000

1

Texas High Plains

245000

$15.00

$1.09

$3,675,000

100

6000

1

Texas Southern Rolling Plains

351381

$13.00

$9.07

$4,567,953

100

0

0

Texas Far West

136000

$12.00

$3.61

$1,632,000

100

0

0

Texas Northern Rolling Planins

377871

$11.00

$9.35

$4,156,581

100

0

0

Texas Southern Blacklands

118969

$17.00

$14.11

$2,022,473

92

11447

1

Texas, Gulf Cosat and Winter Garden

275534

$10.86

$3.55

$2,992,299

94

74976

1

Texas Panhandle

56000

$15.00

$6.77

$840,000

100

0

0

Virginia

85000

$22.00

$20.11

$1,870,000

96

85000

1

               

Total US

8495822

$16.98

$9.43

$139,932,148

92

3961194

0.59