Economic analysis of four weed management systems
1988
Lybecker, D.W. | Schweizer, E.E. | King, R.P.
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 herbicide (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 managment 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.
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