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Scenario 11 - Outdoor Plant/tree Weeds - Consumer, 1990
Method 3, Confidence medium
Manufacturer and
Product (a)		 Sales
($ million)
(a)		 Unit Price
($ per gal)
(a)		 Gal Used
(million)
(calculated)
(b)		 Application
Rate
(gal/acre)
(c)		 Acres Treated
(million)
(calculated)
(d)		 Active
Ingredient		 Acres Treated
(million)
(calculated)
(e)
Monsanto 90.0 48 1.9 0.5 3.8 Glyphosate 3.8
Chevron
Ortho		 Kleenup 7.0 60 0.1 0.5 0.2 Glyphosate 0.2
Weed-B-gone 20.0 32 0.6 0.4 1.6 2,4-D 1.6
MCPP 1.6
Triox 4.3 24 0.2 0.5 0.4 Pramitol (prometon) 0.4
Lebanon 3.5 18 0.2 0.2 1.0 Trifluralin 1.0
VPG Fertilome 2.1 24 0.1 0.4 0.2 2,4-D 0.2
MCPP 0.2
K Mart 2.0 24 0.1 0.4 0.2 2,4-D 0.2
MCPP 0.2
Spectracide 2.0 24 0.1 0.4 0.2 2,4-D 0.2
MCPP 0.2
Other 16.5 20 0.8 0.4 2.1 Dacthal 1.0
Diquat 1.0
          9.6    
Active
Ingredient
(f)		 Acres Treated
(million)
(calculated)
(g)		 Probability
(calculated)
(h)
Glyphosate 4.0 42%
2,4-D 2.2 23%
MCPP 2.2 23%
Diquat 1.0 11%
Dacthal 1.0 11%
Trifluralin 1.0 10%
Prometon 0.4 4%
  1. Kline (Hodge and Rafter, 1992a)
  2. Sales divided by unit price.
  3. Meister Publishing Company manuals, C&P Press publications.
  4. Gallons used divided by application rate in gallons per acre.
  5. Assigning each product's acres treated to all of the active ingredients it contains.
  6. Eliminating duplicates
  7. Combining active ingredient acres treated across all products in which it appears.
  8. Dividing each active ingredient's acres treated by the total number of acres treated (9.6 million).