Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge; Nehring, Richard F.; Osteen, Craig - 2015
Pesticide use has changed considerably over the past five decades. Rapid growth characterized the first 20 years …, ending in 1981. The total quantity of pesticides applied to the 21 crops analyzed grew from 196 million pounds of pesticide … applied along with small annual fluctuations resulted in a slight downward trend in pesticide use to 516 million pounds in …