Data for: Spillover effects of organic agriculture on pesticide use on nearby fields

The environmental impacts of organic agriculture are only partially understood and whether such practices have spillover effects on pests or pest control activity on nearby fields remains unknown. Using roughly 13,000 field observations per year from 2013-2019 in Kern County, CA , we estimate that organic crop producers benefit from surrounding organic fields, decreasing overall pesticide use and pesticides targeting insect pests. Conventional fields, in contrast, tend to increase pesticide use as the area of surrounding organic production increases., Please see accompanying manuscript for details on data creation., , # Analysis data for: \"Spillover effects of organic agriculture on pesticide use on surrounding fields\"

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vhhmgqp1f](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vhhmgqp1f)

These datasets include information on cropland and pesticide use from Kern County, CA and US wide. For Kern County, information on cropland includes characteristics of the focal crop field (e.g. crop type, field size, organic status) as well as information about the landscape surrounding each focal crop field. For the national-scale analysis, information on pesticide use and crop characteristics are provided at the county level.

## Description of the data and file structure

There are 6 data files:

1.     SpatialOrganic_MainText_R2.csv: This file includes the data required to reproduce figures 2-3 in the main text. \"\" indicates missing data.

2.     SpatialOrganic_SI_R2.csv: This file includes the data required to reproduce analyses in the supplementary information, except SI figure 6 (removing overl...