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Pesticide Use Reporting (PUR)
California’s pesticide use reporting program is recognized as the most comprehensive in the world. In 1990, California became the first state to require full reporting of agricultural pesticide use in response to demands for more realistic and comprehensive pesticide use data. Under the program, all agricultural pesticide use must be reported monthly to the county agricultural commissioner, who in turn, reports the data to DPR.
California has a broad legal definition of "agricultural use," so the reporting requirements include pesticide applications to parks, golf courses, cemeteries, rangeland, pastures, and along roadside and railroad rights-of-way. In addition, all postharvest pesticide treatments of agricultural commodities must be reported, along with all pesticide treatments in poultry and fish production, as well as some livestock applications. The primary exceptions to the full use reporting requirements are home and garden use and most industrial and institutional uses.
- Laws governing pesticide use reporting (Scroll to Food and Agricultural Code section 14011.5 et seq)
- Pesticide use reporting regulations (3 CCR sections 6624 – 6628)
- Pesticide use reporting of field fumigant applications
- Forms for pesticide use reporting
California Pesticide Information Portal (CalPIP)
- California Pesticide Information Portal – Generate customized information from DPR’s Pesticide Use Report Database
Summaries of Pesticide Use Data (1989 to present - note that in 1989, full use reporting requirements were not in effect)
Use DPR’s Publication Order Form (PDF, 170 kb) to order copies of the printed version of the annual Summaries of Pesticide Use Data or CDs of the complete database.
Related Links
- Analyses of Pesticide Use Trends
- Pesticide Use Reporting: An Overview of California’s Unique Full Reporting System (May 2000) (HTML) (PDF, 171 kb)
- Report on pesticide use report data quality (2001)
- Part I (PDF, 80 kb)
- Appendix A (PDF, 107 kb) – Preliminary and Expanded List of PUR Problems and Issues
- Appendix B (PDF, 32 kb) – Pesticide User Report Improvement Plan
- Appendix C (PDF, 2.99 mb) – An Assessment of Spatial Data Quality
- Appendix D (PDF, 564 kb) – Pesticide Use Report Loading and Error-Handling
- Corrections to CD-ROM Datasets
(1992, 1993, 1996)
For content questions contact:
Basil Ibewiro
1001 I Street, PO Box 4015
Sacramento, California 95814-4015
Phone: (916) 322-2152
E-mail: bibewiro@cdpr.ca.gov