Conservation Tillage, Pesticide Use, and Biotech Crops in the U.S.A.

This paper presents the first part of an ongoing project whose objective is to present a long term relationship between conservation tillage, adoption of GE crops and pesticide use for major crops in the United States. In addition, the project aims to provide some innovative tests on causality using a panel data set. This paper presents preliminary results for soybeans.

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Year of publication:	2010-07
Authors:	Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge ; Hallahan, Charles B. ; Nehring, Richard F. ; Wechsler, Seth James ; Grube, Arthur
Institutions:	Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA
Subject:	conservation tillage \| biotechnology \| genetically engineered crops \| soybeans \| herbicides \| Environmental Economics and Policy \| Farm Management \| Production Economics

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series 2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado Number 60941
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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