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Subject: Americans and pest control
Category: Family and Home > Home
Asked by: smoore-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 23 Oct 2002 13:29 PDT
Expires: 22 Nov 2002 12:29 PST
Question ID: 88759
How much money do Americans spend on pest control each year?
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Subject: Re: Americans and pest control
From: robertskelton-ga on 23 Oct 2002 14:48 PDT
 
The EPA website has lots of information on the market for pesticides,
albeit a little dated:

"The pesticide industry is quite significant in dollar terms. Annual
expenditures by users of pesticides totaled $11.9 billion in 1997
(conventional pesticides plus sulfur, etc.). Of this, 70 percent was
for use in agriculture (a total of $8.3 billion — an average of nearly
$4,400 per farm in the U.S. — 1.9 million farms). The U.S. total of
$11.9 billion equals $44 per capita. The average U.S. household spent
about $20 for pesticides applied by the homeowner. (This does not
include expenditures for pesticides applied to homes and gardens by
others for hire.) The U.S. accounts for nearly one-third of pesticide
user expenditures world wide."
http://www.epa.gov/oppbead1/pestsales/97pestsales/intro.htm#overview

Follow the above link for more detailed information and tables of data
for 1996 and 1997.

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