This repo lists the rank and best available estimates of mass applied (kg) for the 80 most common agricultural pesticides in Yakima County during 2016, as reported by USGS Estimated Annual Agricultural Pesticide Use data. The table also includes rank by 3-year average (2014-2016) and 5-year average (2012-2016) estimates of mass applied. Rankings and estimates are based on the EPest-high method described by Theilen and Stone (2013) and Baker and Stone (2015).
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Please carefully review the applications and limitations of these data, as described on this USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project page. NOTE: We report county-level estimates despite their intended use to generate state-level estimates.
Dependencies: knitr, knitr, bookdown, dplyr, kableExtra, pdf creator (TeX)