{"id":26398,"date":"2022-05-05T09:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=26398"},"modified":"2022-05-05T09:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:27:20","slug":"department-releases-pesticide-use-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2022\/05\/05\/department-releases-pesticide-use-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Releases Pesticide Use Survey\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ANNAPOLIS, MD <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2013The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has released the results of a statewide pesticide use survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The report, <a href=\"https:\/\/mda.maryland.gov\/plants-pests\/Documents\/2020-MD-Pesticide-Use-Survey.pdf\">2020 Maryland Pesticide Survey Statistics<\/a>, was conducted in 2021, and covers usage across the state in 2020.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis survey provides us with comprehensive information about what pesticides are being used around the state and what trends are developing,\u201d said Secretary Joe Bartenfelder. \u201cThis data not only helps agriculture and industry professionals understand what is being used, it also provides the public and experts with information that can help them focus their research and monitoring efforts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pesticides are defined as any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest. They can take the form of bait, liquid, powder or spray. Commonly used pesticides include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and rodenticides. The survey included information from farmers, private applicators, commercially-licensed businesses and public agencies that are permitted by MDA to apply pesticides.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">USDA NASS categorizes data into two categories: \u201cpublishable\u201d and \u201cunpublishable.\u201d Any reported use under one pound is considered unpublishable. In total, 5.1 million pounds of pesticides were used in 2020 (2.1 million pounds publishable, 3 million pounds unpublishable). The survey attributes 75% of total usage, 13% to insecticides and 11% fungicides. Overall, total usage of pesticide products decreased by 58% since the last pesticide use survey in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The report lists and ranks more than 220 products based on usage. It also provides a comparison of the top 10 pesticide types used in 2020 versus data from surveys conducted in 2014, 2011, 2004, and 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information on MDA\u2019s Pesticide Regulation Section, please visit the program\u2019s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"># # #<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MdAgDept\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@MdAgDept<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD \u2013The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has released the results of a statewide pesticide use survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The report, 2020 Maryland Pesticide Survey Statistics, was conducted in 2021, and covers usage across the state in 2020.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThis survey provides us with<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2022\/05\/05\/department-releases-pesticide-use-survey\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26398"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26415,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions\/26415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}