Yield to the Data: Some Perspective on Crop Productivity and Pesticides - Excel user form

The hectares of habitat protected and the number of adults and children fed in one year were calculated for each of the six crop types for Canada and United States. The calculations were based on the 50th centile of the cumulative frequency distributions of change in crop yield due to pesticide treatment for each crop type. An editable interactive table was created using Microsoft Excel that would allow individuals to determine how pesticide treatment in their selected jurisdiction (province in Canada or state in the United States) and crop translates into habitat saved, calories produced, and mouths fed. This table allows the user to choose the country (Canada or United States), whether to include the organic agriculture correction factor, their state or province of interest, crop, and whether a young child, adolescent child, adult women, or adult man is being fed. The table will then calculate the hectares of habitat saved, added number of calories produced (kcal), the number of individual fed in one day, and the number of individual fed in one year. Due to the variability in yield results between crops and studies, the Excel user form allows individuals to set whichever yield increase they anticipate observing or use the 50th centile of yield increase from the cumulative frequency distribution for each crop.