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Agricultural Pests as Common Property: Control of the Corn Rootworm
Author(s) -
Lazarus William F.,
Dixon Bruce L.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1240924
Subject(s) - externality , resistance (ecology) , production (economics) , economics , agriculture , constraint (computer aided design) , cash crop , natural resource economics , agricultural economics , agronomy , microeconomics , biology , mathematics , ecology , geometry
Insecticide resistance is an increasingly widespread problem reducing effectiveness and necessitating a switch to more expensive controls. A common property resource model is used to describe potential gain from internalizing resistance externalities through regional coordination. A nonlinear programming model of an Illinois cash grain farm is used to estimate the gain for corn rootworm control where rotation to soybeans is an alternative to insecticide. Switching to rotation as resistance builds causes a relatively minor decrease in profits because soybeans are profitable. Gain from delaying resistance is slight. Co‐states give price changes necessary to alter externality production.