USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Agricultural Chemical Use Database

This site provides interactive access to data from NASS, as part of a cooperative effort among USDA, the USDA Regional Pest Management Centers and the NSF Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM). All data available have been previously published by NASS and have been consolidated at the state level.

Commodity acreages and active ingredient agricultural chemical use (% acres treated, ai/acre/treatment, average number of treatments, ai/acre, total ai used) data are available. All data can be searched by commodity, year, state and active ingredient. For more details on methodology, please see NASS website.

Search results can be obtained in web format and as downloadable Excel files. For each individual active ingredient, commodity, year and statistic, dynamic U.S. maps of each use statistic can be generated. Agricultural chemical usage statistic data can also be seen in a graphical format.

Currently, this site contains the data from 1990. We will continue to update the database annually. As this site is enhanced, we will also provide means and totals of the statistics over years, states, and commodities.

This project is funded by USDA, The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), project award No. 2001-34366-10324.

Resources in this dataset:
Resource Title: Agricultural Chemical Use Program Data.
File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Chemical_Use/#data
Since 2009, the release of chemical use surveys is available through Quick Stats. The following materials are available for each survey: highlights fact sheet, a methodology paper, and a set of data tables featuring commonly requested information.