Search Results - subject:"Crop rotation"

The Dynamics of Farm Land Allocation - Short and Long Run Reactions in Long Micro Panel

Arnberg, Soren; Hansen, Lars Garn - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

dynamic effects relating to price expectations adjustment, investment lags, and crop rotation constraints. Estimation is based …

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Absence of genetic divergence between western corn rootworms (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae) resistant and susceptible to control by crop rotation

Miller, Nicholas; Kim, Kyung Seok; Ratcliffe, Susan T.; … - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2006

the species to circumvent crop rotation as a means of control in part of its range in the United States. Analyses of …

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Environmental benefits of the integrated production of ethanol and biodiesel

Souza, Simone Pereira; Seabra, Joaquim E.A. - In: Applied Energy 102 (2013) C, pp. 5-12

The biorefinery of the future will be an integrated complex that makes a variety of products (e.g., biofuels, chemicals, power and protein) from a variety of feedstocks. The objective of this work was to evaluate the environmental benefits, compared to the traditional sugarcane ethanol system,...

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Conjunctive use of reclaimed water and groundwater in crop rotations

Al Khamisi, Saif A.; Prathapar, S.A.; Ahmed, M. - In: Agricultural Water Management 116 (2013) C, pp. 228-234

Irrigated agriculture in Oman relies solely on groundwater and Aflaj (Falaj is a canal system, which provides water for a community of farmers for domestic and agricultural use). With the increasing scarcity of freshwater available to agriculture, the need to use of reclaimed water (RW) from...

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Economically optimal crop sequences using risk-adjusted network flows: Modeling cotton crop rotations in the southeastern United States

Salassi, Michael E.; Deliberto, Michael A.; Guidry, Kurt M. - In: Agricultural Systems 118 (2013) C, pp. 33-40

Crop rotation is a long-standing agricultural practice whose agronomic and economic benefits are well documented. The … crop rotation decision at the farm level is very complex with a myriad of factors which can ultimately impact observed net … process. A transshipment network formulation of the crop rotation decision problem is presented with the incorporation of risk …

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Potential for the Conservation Security Program to Induce More Ecologically Diverse Crop Rotations in the Western Corn Belt

Dobbs, Thomas L.; Streff, Nicholas J. - Economics Department, South Dakota State University - 2005

The potential of the USDA’s new Conservation Security Program (CSP) for inducing farmers to adopt more ecologically diverse crop rotations in the Western Corn Belt is examined. Simulations are conducted for a representative farm model in southeastern South Dakota, using different assumptions...

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Profitability analysis of cropping systems for biogas production on marginal sites in southwestern Germany

Wünsch, Karin; Gruber, Sabine; Claupein, Wilhelm - In: Renewable Energy 45 (2012) C, pp. 213-220

southwestern Germany. The effects of crop rotation and nitrogen fertilization level were evaluated in a three-year filed experiment. …

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Market Impacts of Adopting Herbicide-Resistant Rice in the Southern United States

Fuller, Frank H.; Annou, Mamane Malam; Wailes, Eric J. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 35 (2003) 01

Herbicide-resistant (HR) rice varieties offer U.S. rice producers a powerful tool for control of red rice infestations. However, improved weed control can shorten crop rotations and boost yields, resulting in expanded rice production and lower domestic market prices. Declining market returns...

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Farm Economic Consequences of a Reduced Use of Pesticides in Danish Agriculture

Orum, Jens Erik; Jorgensen, Lise Nistrup; Jensen, Peter … - International Farm Management Association - IFMA - 2002

analysis was built up around a set of farm types representative for Danish crop rotation regimes and a set of scenarios … the crop yield losses, alternative cultivation techniques, and a number of overall restrictions on the crop rotation were … considerably economic effects on crop production and require severe adjustment of the crop rotation and cultivation systems …

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Rural Poverty and Soil Degradation: Some Evidences from a Land Reform Settlement in the Brazilian State of Goiás

Wander, Alcido Elenor; Cunha, Cleyzer Adrian; Santos, … - Ciências Econômicas, Escola de Agronomia e Engenharia … - 2009

natural resource saving practices like agroforestry systems and crop rotation. As independent variables that explain the … probability of adoption of crop rotation in the farms. Three of the independent variables had negative signs: total income, herd …

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