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Sample selection model assessing professional scouting programs and pesticide use in cotton production
Author(s) -
Yee Jet,
Ferguson Walter
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6297(199605/06)12:3<291::aid-agr8>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - acre , pesticide , agricultural science , production (economics) , irrigation , sample (material) , yield (engineering) , government (linguistics) , toxicology , agricultural economics , microbiology and biotechnology , business , agronomy , environmental science , biology , economics , linguistics , chemistry , materials science , philosophy , chromatography , metallurgy , macroeconomics
A sample selection model is estimated using data from a 1989 survey of cotton farmers in the 14 major producing states to assess the effects of the farmer's participation in a professional scouting program on pesticide use in cotton production. Our results, based on 1989 conditions, indicate that participation in a professional scouting program increases yield and the number of treatments per acre of pesticides (broadly defined to include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, desiccants/defoliants, and growth regulators). Use of pest‐resistant plants reduces the number of pesticide treatments per acre and irrigation increases the number of treatments per acre. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This article is a US Government work, and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America.