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The Choice of Tillage, Rotation, and Soil Testing Practices: Economic and Environmental Implications
Author(s) -
Wu JunJie,
Babcock Bruce A.
Publication year - 1998
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 - 10.2307/1244552
Subject(s) - tillage , selection (genetic algorithm) , agriculture , economics , environmental resource management , business , computer science , geography , ecology , archaeology , artificial intelligence , biology
Farmers' management practices can have a significant effect on agricultural pollution. Past research has analyzed factors influencing adoption of a single management practice. But often adoption decisions about many practices are made simultaneously, which suggests use of a polychotomous‐choice model to analyze decisions. Such a model is applied to the choice of alternative management practices on cropland in the Central Nebraska Basin and controlled for self‐selection and the interaction between alternative practices. The results of the choice model are used to estimate the economic and environmental effects of adopting alternative combinations of management practices.