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Provedor de dados: | Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
País: | United States
Título: | Valuing the Roundup Ready® Soybean Weed Management Program
Autores: | Aultman,   Stephen; Hurley,   Terrance M.; Mitchell,   Paul D.; Frisvold,   George B.
Data: | 2009-04-30
Ano: | 2009
Palavras-chave: | Roundup Ready; Soybean; Glyphosate; Weed Resistance; Benefits; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Farm Management; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.
Resumo: | This study examines soybean grower adoption of the Roundup Ready® (RR) weed management program with and without a residual herbicide application, and grower concerns regarding weed resistance to herbicides using telephone survey data from of 357 growers in 2007.  It also estimates the pecuniary and non-pecuniary benefits enjoyed by growers from their RR program.  The results indicate that soybean growers planned to treat 29 percent of their RR acres with a residual herbicide in 2008.  More than half (53%) of the growers survey were concerned about weed resistance.  The estimated expected benefit of the RR program in 2008 was $10.17 per acre, which translates into about $727 million with 75.7 million acres of soybean in the U.S. in 2008.  The estimated value per acre of the RR program with and without a residual was $8.78 and $12.83.  The estimates also suggest that if growers were not using residual herbicides with the RR program, their benefits would be 28.4% lower.  Alternatively, if all growers were required to use residual herbicides on their RR acres, the value of the RR program would be 46% lower.  Simply increasing grower weed resistance concerns could increase residual herbicide use on RR acres by up to 7%.  The same increase in residual herbicide use could be accomplished by decreasing the cost of residual herbicide applications on RR acres by $0.81 per acre.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/49342

Relação:

Agricultural and Applied Economics Association&gt;2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Selected Paper

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