A Bioeconomic Analysis of Site‐Specific Management for Weed Control

Oriade, Caleb A.; King, Robert P.; Forcella, Frank; Gunsolus, Jeffrey L.

doi:10.2307/1349587

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“…Since most research has been done in the area of herbicide application (vide supra), the focus of this section lies on the economic impact of VR herbicide application. Oriade et al (1996) [125] suggested that weed patchiness is the most important factor economically justifying the use of site-specific weed control. Using simulation, they showed that economic and environmental benefits are almost zero at low weed pressures, particularly if weeds are evenly spread.…”

Section: Impacts Of the Use Of Vrpa On Productivity And Farm Economicsmentioning

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Precision Agriculture Technologies Positively Contributing to GHG Emissions Mitigation, Farm Productivity and Economics

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Agriculture is one of the economic sectors that affect climate change contributing to greenhouse gas emissions directly and indirectly. There is a trend of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions reduction, but any practice in this direction should not affect negatively farm productivity and economics because this would limit its implementation, due to the high global food and feed demand and the competitive environment in this sector. Precision agriculture practices using high-tech equipment has the ability to reduce agricultural inputs by site-specific applications, as it better target inputs to spatial and temporal needs of the fields, which can result in lower greenhouse gas emissions. Precision agriculture can also have a positive impact on farm productivity and economics, as it provides higher or equal yields with lower production cost than conventional practices. In this work, precision agriculture technologies that have the potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions are presented providing a short description of the technology and the impacts that have been reported in literature on greenhouse gases reduction and the associated impacts on farm productivity and economics. The technologies presented span all agricultural practices, including variable rate sowing/planting, fertilizing, spraying, weeding and irrigation.

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Section: Impacts Of the Use Of Vrpa On Productivity And Farm Economicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Precision Agriculture Technologies Positively Contributing to GHG Emissions Mitigation, Farm Productivity and Economics

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“…Another possible result from adoption of SSM is the potential environmental benefits. Several studies suggest that SSM has the potential to reduce chemical runoff and leaching through improved matching of chemical application with crop needs (Hite, Hudson and Intarapapong 2002a;Office of Technology Assessment 1995;Fuglie and Bosch 1995;Khanna and Zilberman 1997;Oriade et al 1996;Schnitkey and Hopkins 1997). Assuming that these environmental impacts are tenable, they create a positive externality (or reduce a negative externality) by reducing pollution levels that accrues to the public, but currently provide little or no added monetary incentive for producers to adopt SSM.…”

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Producer Willingness to Pay for Precision Application Technology: Implications for Government and the Technology Industry

Hudson¹,

Hite

2003

Canadian J Agri Economics

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This paper focuses on the willingness to pay (WTP) for precision application/site‐specific management technologies on the part of agricultural producers. We use a contingent valuation survey to elicit WTP for a package of technologies and examine the impact of government subsidies on potential demand. Results suggest that producer WTP is significantly lower than current technology prices, necessitating a 60% government subsidy to induce adoption, on average. Agronomic factors such as soil characteristic variability and soil quality are important determinants of WTP. In addition, how well the technology integrates into current farming practices and equipment also appears important.

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“…By modeling the economic consequences of site specific weed control in regard to weed coverage (such as the number of occurring weed varieties, specific density compared to the damage threshold, and weed vegetation phase at the given time), those relations can be revealed which determine whether positive results can be reached in an economic sense, and reveal what the main influencing factors are [21,22].…”

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Risk Assessment and Examination of Economic Aspects of Precision Weed Management

György

Takács

2011

Sustainability

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The aim of this research is to investigate plant production sustainability, the economical requirements, risks, and identify threshold levels to switching on, or off precision weed management techniques in Hungarian growing and sales conditions; taking into consideration that the implementation of precision technology can be justified also by its role in the reduction of environmental load, which would create a harmony between individual usefulness and social utility. A simulation model has been developed to investigate the return of extra investments, along with the risk of this return in relation to the soil type, weed coverage, and the sales price.

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A Bioeconomic Analysis of Site‐Specific Management for Weed Control

Cited by 30 publications

References 25 publications

Precision Agriculture Technologies Positively Contributing to GHG Emissions Mitigation, Farm Productivity and Economics

Precision Agriculture Technologies Positively Contributing to GHG Emissions Mitigation, Farm Productivity and Economics

Producer Willingness to Pay for Precision Application Technology: Implications for Government and the Technology Industry

Risk Assessment and Examination of Economic Aspects of Precision Weed Management

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