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. "Appendix A: Costs of Regulating Transgenic Pest-Protected Plants." Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000.

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GENETICALLY MODIFIED PEST-PROTECTED PLANTS: SCIENCE AND REGULATION

TABLE A.2 US Farm-Sector Sales of Pesticides and Seed for Major Crops, 1997

	Chemical Expenditures per Acre, $	Seed Expenditures per Acre, $	Crop Area, millions of acres	Total Chemical Expenditures, millions of $	Share of Total Chemical Sales, %	Total Seed Expenditures, millions of $	Share of Total Seed Sales, %
Corn	26.87	28.71	80.2	2,155.70	24.4	2,303.32	34.3
Soybeans	28.21	19.66	70.6	1,991.63	22.6	1,388.00	20.7
Wheat	6.32	9.02	71.0	448.65	5.1	640.32	9.5
Cotton	59.47	16.80	13.6	808.79	9.2	228.48	3.4
Rice	68.32	24.15	3.1	208.79	2.4	73.80	1.1
Sorghum	11.71	6.57	10.1	118.27	1.3	66.36	1.0
Barley	9.81	8.96	6.9	67.69	0.8	61.82	0.9
Oats	1.83	9.11	5.2	9.52	0.1	47.37	0.7
Sugar beets	74.15	43.63	1.5	111.23	1.3	65.45	1.0
Peanuts	98.75	74.18	1.4	138.25	1.6	103.85	1.5
Fall potatoes	217.69	156.43	1.4	304.77	1.8	219.00	3.3
Total				8,827		6,711
Source: Per acre expenditures by crop from Economic Research Service (1999b).Crop Area from USDA (1999a). Total chemical aand seed expendituresfrom Economic Research Service (1999b).