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Studies examining the value of switching to a variable rate technology (VRT) fertilizer program assume producers possess perfect soil nitrate information. In reality, producers estimate soil nitrate levels with soil sampling. The value of switching to a VRT program depends on the quality of the estimates and on how the estimates are used. Larger samples sizes, increased spatial correlation, and decreased variability improve the estimates and increase returns. Fertilizing strictly to the estimated field map fails to account for estimation risk. Returns increase if the soil sample information is used in a Bayesian fashion to update the soil nitrate beliefs in nonsampled sites.

Subject(s): Crop Production/Industries

Issue Date: 1999-12

Publication Type: Journal Article

PURL Identifier: http://purl.umn.edu/30797 Published in: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Volume 24, Number 2 Page range: 342-366

Total Pages: 25

Record appears in: Western Agricultural Economics Association > Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics





Autor: Pautsch, Gregory R. ; Babcock, Bruce A. ; Breidt, F. Jay

Fuente: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30797?ln=en

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