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Scenario 12 - Outdoor Plant/tree Weeds - Consumer 2000
Method 3, Confidence medium
Manufacturer
and Product
(a)		 Sales
($ million)
(b)		 Unit
Price
($ per gal)
(a)		 Gallons
Used
(million)
(calculated)
(c)		 Application
Rate
(gal/acre)
(d)		 Acres
Treated
(million)
(calculated)
(e)		 Active
Ingredient
 		 Acres
Treated
(million)
(calculated)
(f)
Monsanto (Marketed by Scotts) 145.0 48.0 3.0 0.5 6.0 Glyphosate 6.0
Scotts
Ortho		 14.5            
Kleeraway Grass & Weed Killer 4.0 63.9 0.1 0.5 0.1 Glyphosate 0.1
Triox Vegetation Killer 2.0 17.0 0.1 2.0 0.1 Pramitol (prometon) 0.1
Triox Vegetation Killer Formula II 3.5 33.0 0.1 0.3 0.4 Oxyfluorfen 0.4
Imazapyr 0.4
Groundclear Total Vegetation Killer 2.0 99.0 0.02 0.5 0.04 Glyphosate 0.04
Imazapyr 0.04
Fence & Grass Edger Formula II 1.0 60.0 0.02 0.4 0.04 Glyphosate 0.04
Oxyfluorfen 0.04
Brush-B-Gone 1.0 30.0 0.03 0.2 0.2 Trichlopyr 0.2
Grass Killer Formula II 1.0 30.0 0.03 0.2 0.2 Fluazifop 0.2
Lebanon 21.6 18.0 1.2 0.2 6.0 Trifluralin 6.0
VPG Fertilome 2.4 24.0 0.1 0.5 0.2 Glyphosate 0.2
Imazapyr 0.2
Enforcer              
Roots & All 3.5 48.0 0.1 0.5 0.1 Glyphosate 0.1
Brush Killer 1.2 30.0 0.04 0.5 0.1 Triclopyr 0.1
United Industries (Spectracide)              
Spot Weed Killer 10.0 15.0 0.7 0.3 2.0 2,4-D 2.0
MCPP 2.0
Dicamba 2.0
Grass and Weed Killer 10.0 88.8 0.1 0.3 0.5 Diquat 0.5
Fluazifop 0.5
Vegetation Killer 9.8 17.0 0.6 2.0 0.3 Pramitol (prometon) 0.3
Green Light 1.3 20.0 0.5 0.3 1.7 Dacthal 1.7
Oryzalin 1.7
PBI Gordon 1.3 25.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 Fluazifop 0.3
Dacthal 0.3
Lilly/Miller, Cooke 1.3 25.0 0.1 0.3 0.2 Orazylin 0.2
Dichlobenil 0.2
Diquat 0.2
Farnam 1.1 113.0 0.01 1.0 0.01 Glufosinate 0.01
Other 4.5 20.0 0.2 0.3 0.8 Dacthal 0.4
Diquat 0.4
Total         19.1    
Active
Ingredient
(g)		 Acres
Treated
(million)
(calculated)
(h)		 Probability
(calculated)
(i)
Glyphosate 6.6 35%
Trifluralin 6.0 31%
Dacthal 2.3 12%
MCPP 2.0 11%
Dicamba 2.0 11%
2,4-D 2.0 11%
Oryzalin 1.8 10%
Diquat 1.0 5%
Fluazifop 0.9 5%
Imazapyr 0.7 3%
Prometon 0.3 2%
Oxyfluorfen 0.5 2%
Trichlopyr 0.2 1%
Other 0.2 1%
  1. Kline (Hall and Dansbury, 2000)
  2. Manufacturer sales are from Kline (Hall and Dansbury, 2000); product sales were based on judgment.
  3. Sales divided by unit price.
  4. Meister Publishing Company manuals, C&P Press publications.
  5. Gallons used divided by application rate in gallons per acre.
  6. Assigning each product's acres treated to all of the active ingredients it contains.
  7. Eliminating duplicates.
  8. Combining active ingredient acres treated across all products in which it appears.
  9. Dividing each active ingredient's acres treated by the total number of acres treated (19.1 million).