The Farm Pesticide IndustryDepartment of Agriculture, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, 1980 - Pesticides - 24 pages |
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30 percent 42 percent 74 percent Alachlor Aldrin analysis atrazine based on ITC Basic pesticide production basic producers chlordane cides component markets corn herbicide market corn insecticide market cotton insecticides crop insecticides development costs dieldrin dropped farm herbicide farm pesticide industry farmers Federal Insecticide firms producing four leading firms four leading producers Fungi fungicide heptachlor Herbi herbicide in 1976 herbicide purchases herbicides and insecticides herbicides or cotton Horizontal Integration industry concentration Insecti insecticides in 1966 Integrated Pest Management ITC data leading corn herbicide leading firms accounted leading firms increased Leading Pesticide leading producer accounted major share market in 1966 market share held methyl parathion Number Percent organochlorine percent in 1976 pest resistance pesti pesticide chemicals pesticide research pesticide type quantities of active registration research and development Rodenticide second ranking Share of purchases Source soybean subdivided by crop synthetic organic pesticides toxaphene Type of pesticide vertical integration X X X