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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | ASSESSING SPATIAL BREAK-EVEN VARIABILITY IN FIELDS WITH TWO OR MORE MANAGEMENT ZONES
Autores: | English,   Burton C.; Mahajanashetti,   S.B.; Roberts,   Roland K.
Data: | 2005-06-21
Ano: | 2001
Palavras-chave: | Management zones; Nitrogen; Precision farming; Site-specific management; Spatial break-even variability proportions; Spatial variability; Variable rate technology; Yield response variability; Farm Management.
Resumo: | Farmers are interested in knowing whether applying inputs at variable rates across a field is economically viable.  The answer depends on the crop, the input, their prices, the cost of variable rate technology (VRT) versus uninform rate technology (URT), and the spatial and yield response variability within each field.  Methods were investigated for determining the range of spatial variability over which the return to VRT covers its additional cost compared with URT in fields with multiple management zones.  Models developed in this article, or variants thereof, could be used to help farmers make the VRT adoption decision.
Tipo: | Journal Article
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

16723

http://purl.umn.edu/15450

Editor: | AgEcon Search
Relação: | Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics&gt;Volume 33, Number 03, December 2001

Formato:

15

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