Certified pesticide applicators and technicians who apply pesticides and commercial permittees who sell pesticides are required to submit reports to the New York State Department of Conservation (NYSDEC) about the pesticides used or sold.  This information is then compiled into a data base that is maintained by NYSDEC and Cornell University (http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/psur/).

To learn more about the Pesticide Reporting Law, New York State Pesticide Sales and Applications Annual Reports, and the reporting forms, use the following links:

§         Pesticide Reporting Law http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dshm/pesticid/prl.htm

§         New York State Pesticide Sales and Applications Annual Reports http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dshm/prl/index.html

§         Pesticide reporting forms http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/psur/reportforms.html

 

There are four ways to make use of the pesticide sales and use data:

1. You may search the data for Specific Active Ingredients usage or sales data using their Names or Codes. You can also select to see all Active Ingredients. You may filter the searches as statewide,county(s) or zipcode(s).

2. You may search for the total amount of Active Ingredients used or sold to private applicators as statewide, or by county(s) or zipcode(s). Total amounts of active ingredients sold for resale or to endusers is available as statwide quantity only.

3. You may search the for Top Ten amounts of Active Ingredients used or sold to private applicators as statewide, or by a county or a zipcode . Top Ten amounts of active ingredients sold for resale or to endusers is available as statwide quantity only.

4. The data may be downloaded for analysis with programs such as SPSS and SAS.

A:   There are eight report files and one dictionary file that are contained in a zip file created for each year in which data is currently available. These files are tab delimited files.   These files include:

§         Active Ingredient names (1 file: ai_names.txt)

§         Data of the sale of restricted use pesticides and general use agricultural pesticides by commercial permit holders (5 files: ai_sales_all.txt, ai_sales_cnty.txt, ai_sales_zip.txt, ai_sales_enduse.txt,ai_sales_resale.txt). All file names have the year appended as the last four characters i.e.(ai_sales_resale_2003.txt).

§         Data of the use of restricted pesticides by Commercial applicators(3 files: ai_use_all.txt, ai_use_cnty.txt, ai_use_zipcode.txt). All file names have the year appended as the last four characters i.e.(ai_sales_resale_2003.txt)

§         The results of all searches may be downloaded as xml files. The schemas for these xml files will vary depending on the type of search performed. The Schemas for the xml files are listed on the data dictionary page of the Active Ingredients site. You may click the link below to go to the Data Dictionary.

Active Ingridients Data Dictionary