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Data Qualifications Reports Pesticide Annual Reports Submitted to the NYS Legislature Product Information Search Download Reports 
Data updated July, 1999 The Department has developed a pesticide sales and use computer data base in conjunction with Cornell, and compiled the information from reports pursuant to ECL §§ 33-1205 and 33-1207. This data base was used to prepare this annual report summarizing pesticide sales, quantity of pesticides used, category of applicator and regions of application. The data summarizes the information received regarding pesticide sales and usage as reported to the Department by the regulated community. The Department cannot attest to the accuracy of the information contained in these data summaries. Users of the data are cautioned against the use of the data to draw specific conclusions regarding pesticide sales and use in New York State. Some pesticide data submitted on non-standard forms were entered. On these forms the required report fields were not located in the same places as on the standard forms. In many cases the non-standard forms did not include all the required report fields. The data entry operators were forced to search for data that were either not there, located in a different section of the form, or even on separate pages altogether. The quality of these data are not as reliable as the data submitted on the standard forms. The Law requires the Department to accept data from the regulated community on handwritten forms. These forms accounted for a significant percentage of the total number of forms received by the Department. The data on these forms were difficult for the data entry operators to decipher. The quality of these data are not as reliable as data submitted on typed or computer-generated forms. Usage of zip code to define application and sales locations created a number of problems. Zip codes represent postal delivery locations. Large wilderness areas or farmland may have few if any delivery points. Since mail is not delivered to these locations, they are technically not located in a zip code. Determination of what zip code to report for an application or intended application in one of these locations was problematic for the businesses and applicators. Some zip codes represent more than one contiguous location. Without more accurate address data than is currently collected, there is no way to divide application or intended application quantities between the separate locations represented by these zip codes. Data reported for selected zip codes have not been reported under that zip code. These selected zip codes are unique to a location and could be used to identify where an application or intended application occurred. Identification of the specific location of a pesticide application is not allowed by the Pesticide Reporting Law. In these instances, if the zip code was located entirely within a single enclosing zip code, the data were reported under that enclosing zip code. Otherwise the data for these zip codes have been reported under the "Private" category. Quantities for some pesticides were reported using both weight and volume-based units of measure. The validation data to determine which type of measurement unit should be used to report that particular pesticide are not currently available in a form applicable to the reported pesticide data. Therefore, the reports list both measurements, as it was reported to the Department. Products with a quantity of zero reflect that applications or intended applications of the product were made, but that the quantity was illegible, missing, or irregular on the report form. Efforts will be made to obtain this information as the Department and Cornell continue with data quality assurance methods. In order to show that a trace quantity of a product was applied, negligible quantities ( < 0.01) have been reported as 0.01 rather than 0.00. A reported value of "Irregular" usually refers to source pesticide reports where two values were submitted for a single field. "Invalid" refers to an EPA Registration Number that did not match those EPA Registration Numbers for pesticide products registered in New York State for a particular reporting year. 
• Sales Data (Commercial Permittee holders) - The data in these reports are based on commercial permit holders who sell or offer for sale restricted use pesticides and and those who sell general use pesticides intended for agricultural crop production. The data have been collected from source reports (Form27 (PDF)) filed by businesses that hold valid New York State commercial pesticide sales permits.
• Manufacturers, Compounders, and Importers Sales Data - The data in these reports are based on sales of restricted use pesticides to individuals with a valid commercial applicator certification, including those that possess a purchase permit and businesses with commercial pesticide sales permits. The end use report (Form25 (PDF)) reflects sales, including purchase permit sales to commercial applicators that intend to apply pesticides. The resale report reflects sales to commercial permit holders that intend to resell the pesticide product. Since products may be sold multiple times, the quantities in the resale report may reflect duplicate sales of the same pesticide product(s). The data in both of these reports are for statewide sales.
• Usage Data - The data in these reports are from commercial applicators that are required to report each pesticide application, at least annually, with the Department. The data have been collected from source reports (Form26 (PDF)) filed by businesses that hold valid New York State pesticide business registrations and by individuals with a valid commercial applicator certification.
For a copy of the 1997 annual pesticide report submitted to the New
York State Legislature, click the link below. 
The NYS Pesticide Product Ingredient and Manufacturer System (PIMS) database is designed to aid the user in searching for pesticide product information as supplied to the Pesticide Management Education Program (PMEP) by the New York State Pesticide Registration Section within the Department of Environmental Conservation. Using the EPA Registration Number you may search PIMS for more detailed product information. 
For your convenience we are providing the above reports in plain text format for download. The plain text format is suitable for importing into spreadsheets or databases. These files are compressed, using Stuffit compression for Macintosh and zip compression for DOS/Windows users. You will need a decompression utility such as "Stuffit Expander" or "WinZip" to unpack these files. The readme file in each archive contains record layout (column header) information for the eight report files.
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