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Economic Analysis of Four Weed Management Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Donald W. Lybecker ,
Edward E. Schweizer  and
Robert P. King
Donald W. Lybecker
Affiliation:
Dep. Agric. and Res. Econ., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO 80523
Edward E. Schweizer
Affiliation:
Agric. Res. Serv., U.S. Dep. Agric., Crops Res. Lab., Fort Collins, CO 80523
Robert P. King
Affiliation:
Dep. Agric. and Appl. Econ., Univ. Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 5 5108
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Abstract

An economic analysis of four weed management systems employed on four crop sequences in a barley-corn-pinto bean-sugarbeet rotation in eastern Colorado was computed. Weeds were controlled in each crop with only conventional tillage or conventional tillage plus minimum levels of herbicides (systems 3 and 4), moderate levels of herbicides (system 1), or intensive levels of herbicides (system 2). Adjusted gross returns were higher for systems 3 and 4 where herbicide use was less/year and decreased over 4 yr than for systems 1 and 2 where herbicide use was higher/year and constant. When the four crop sequences were aggregated using yield and sucrose indices, the least herbicide-intensive weed management system had $440/ha/4 yr higher indexed adjusted gross return than the most herbicide-intensive weed management system. An income risk analysis showed that the herbicide-intensive weed management system was not risk efficient and that producers would select one of the other three less herbicide-intensive weed management systems depending upon their risk preferences.

Keywords

Barley, Hordeum vulgare L. ‘Steptoe’corn, Zea mays L. ‘Pioneer 3565’pinto bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L. ‘Olathe’sugarbeet, Beta vulgaris L. ‘Mono Hy A4’Interdisciplinary weed researchBeta vulgarisHordeum vulgarePhaseolus vulgarisZea mays
Type
Special Topics
Information
Weed Science , Volume 36 , Issue 6 , November 1988 , pp. 846 - 849
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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