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Source: USDA Economic Research Service using data from USDA National
Agricultural Statistics Service Agricultural Chemical Usage reports.
Figure 12. Insecticide use in corn and cotton production, 1995-2010.
Bt crops have insect-resistant traits.
Source: USDA Economic Research Service using data from 2001, 2005, and 2010
ARMS Phase II corn surveys.
Figure 13 .Insecticide use in corn farms: adopters and non-adopters of Bt corn, 2001-
2010.
Adoption of HT crops has mixed impact on herbicide use.
Herbicide use
on cotton and soybean acres (measured in pounds per planted acre) declined
slightly in the first years following introduction of HT seeds in 1996, but
