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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 county agricultural commissioners, who in turn, report 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 reporting requirements are home-and-garden use and most industrial and institutional uses.

California Pesticide Information Portal (CalPIP)

California Pesticide Information Portal – Generate customized information from DPR’s Pesticide Use Report Database

Pesticide Use Annual Summaries

DPR staff prepare annual data summaries, indexed by chemical or by commodity. The summaries include analyses of pesticide use trends 

and are available from 1989 to present. (Note: In 1989, full use reporting requirements were not in effect.)

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Pesticide Use Database

Download complete PUR database, by year, from DPR’s FTP site. Zip files of data from 1974 through most recent available.

Download zip files of full years of pesticide use data 

Guide, PDF (177 kb) to using PUR files, 2002 and later

Note: CDs of data from 1989 to date are also available. E-mail your request to PUR.inquiry@cdpr.ca.gov. Please specify the 

year or years you want and include a mailing address. There is no charge.

The 2011 and 2012 PUR data in CalPIP and on DPR's ftp site were updated on 10/24/2014

Laws and Regulations

Laws governing pesticide use reporting (Scroll to Food and Agricultural Code section 14011.5)

Pesticide use reporting regulations (3 CCR sections 6624 – 6628)

Pesticide use reporting of field fumigant applications

Related Links

Agricultural Pesticide Use Web Mapping Service - California Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Investigations Branch

Analyses of Pesticide Use Trends

Forms for pesticide use reporting

Pesticide Use Reporting: An Overview of California’s Unique Full Reporting System (May 2000) (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

Please send your questions and comments to PUR.inquiry@cdpr.ca.gov.

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