Table 25

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Total reported pounds of all active ingredients (AI), acres treated, acres planted, and prices for cotton each year from 2013 to 2017. Planted acres are from USDA(a), 2014 - 2018; marketing year average prices from 2013 to 2015 are from CDFA(c), 2016; Acres treated means cumulative acres treated. Text files of data are available. Number of Applications and Acres values are for production agricultural pesticide use only. A value of zero indicates that there were no production agricultural pesticide use records.

Cotton 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Pounds AI 3007972 2436909 2147781 2605300 4008870
Acres Treated 6254301 4594373 4405363 5659519 8988569
Acres planted 280000 212000 164000 218000 304000
Price per lb 1.432 1.355 1.112 N/A N/A