Pesticide use (kg) |
USGS Pesticide National Synthesis Project: https://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/pnsp/usage/maps/county-level/
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>500 pesticide active ingredients |
Seed treatments excluded after 2014, and in California in all years |
Estimates for ten crops or crop groups and the 50 contiguous states in the US |
Annual (1992–2017) |
Pesticide use (kg, kg/ac on treated acres; % acres treated) |
USDA Agricultural Chemical Use Survey: https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/
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Major crops and pesticides |
Seed treatments excluded in all years |
State, regional, and national resolutions |
Annual for major crops and production areas; sporadic for minor crops (1990–2019) |
Crop area (acres) |
US Census of Agriculture: https://www.quickstats.nass.usda.gov/
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All crops |
County, state, and national resolutions |
Every five years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017) |
USDA NASS Survey: https://www.quickstats.nass.usda.gov/
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Major crops |
State, regional, and national resolutions |
Annual for major crops and production areas; sporadic for minor crops (1990–2017) |
Honey bee acute toxicity (LD50, usually in µg/bee) |
EPA ECOTOX Database: https://cfpub.epa.gov/ecotox/
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Wide range of toxicological measurements reported in the dataset |
PPDB: Pesticides Properties Database: https://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/en/
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Wide range of toxicological measurements reported in the dataset |
Land use/Land cover |
USDA Cropland Data Layer: https://nassgeodata.gmu.edu/CropScape/
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Dozens of crop species and seven non-agricultural land cover classes for the contiguous US |
30–56 m resolution |
Annual (2008–2020 for entire US; some states go back to early 2000s) |