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Economic Thresholds Under Uncertainty with Application to Corn Nematode Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

L. Joe Moffitt ,
Darwin C. Hall  and
Craig D. Osteen
L. Joe Moffitt
Affiliation:
Natural Resource Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of California, Riverside and Washington, D.C.
Darwin C. Hall
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside
Craig D. Osteen
Affiliation:
Natural Resource Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of California, Riverside and Washington, D.C.
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Abstract

An economic threshold of agricultural pest management is derived. Results provide a method for researchers to use in making improved pest control recommendations to farmers without farm level decisionmaking. An empirical illustration for lesion nematode management in irrigated corn is given and directions for further research are indicated.

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economic thresholdsuncertaintypest managementcornnematodes
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , December 1984 , pp. 151 - 158
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1984

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