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Assessing the potential economic benefits to farmers from various GM crops becoming available in the European Union by 2025: results from an expert survey [PDF]
, 2017 This paper reports on a study that identified a range of crop-trait combinations that are: agronomically suited to the EU; provide advantages to arable farmers and consumers; and are either already available in international markets, or advancing along ...
Jones, Philip J. +3 more
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Market regulation and productivity: The case of the Canadian Wheat Board
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Changes to regulatory environments influence firm‐level incentives, which can move the productivity frontier or reposition firms within an existing frontier. Estimating causal effects of policy changes requires a credible counterfactual for productivity in the absence of policy change.
Ryan Cardwell, Pascal L. Ghazalian
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PlantsPhalaris brachystachys (short-spiked canary grass) is considered to be among the most troublesome cereal weeds in Mediterranean areas. A bioeconomic model, based on population dynamics, competition and economic sub-models, was developed to simulate the ...
Casto Zambrano-Navea +3 more
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Striga Management through Herbicide Resistance: A Public-Private Partnership in Action [PDF]
Striga is an indigenous parasitic weed that attacks cereals and other crops in Africa. In maize croplands alone, Striga infests over 2.3 million ha resulting in 1.6 million tons of grain loss worth US $383 million annually.
Savala, Canon N., Woomer, Paul L.
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, 2010 In 2010, the University of Vermont Extension Crops and Soils Team conducted an evaluation of tineweeding as a weed management strategy in corn and sunflowers in Alburgh, VT.
Cummings, Erica +4 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon +3 more
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Economics of herbicide use in cereal crops - influence of spring rainfall
Proceedings of the New Zealand Plant Protection Conference, 1996 Relationships between spring rainfall and yield losses prevented by herbicides in wheat and barley in Canterbury were used in a simple bio-economic model to evaluate the effects of spring rainfall on the economics of herbicide application in these crops.
G.W. Bourd?t, D.J. Saville, G.A. Hurrell
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite research on sustainable labels, little is known about combining eco‐ and social labels and the effects on consumers. Although consumers are increasingly confronted with both socially oriented, e.g., fair trade, as well as environmentally oriented eco‐labels such as certified organic cotton, the effect on consumer value has not been ...
Lamia Arslan, Samanthi Dijkstra‐Silva
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Cadou FORTE – a new herbicide in cereals with efficacy against grasses and dicots
Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2012 Cadou FORTE (flufenacet; flurtamone; diflufenican) is a new cereal herbicide with efficacy against blackgrass (Alopecurus myosuroides), loose silky-bentgrass (Apera spica-venti L.), annual meadow-grass (Poa annua L.) and a broad spectrum of dicot weeds ...
Kerlen, Dirk, Naunheim, Peter
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Recent results in the development of band steaming for intra-row weed control [PDF]
, 2004 The recent achievements with developing band-steaming techniques for intra-row weed control in vegetables are ...
Elsgaard, Scientist Lars +2 more
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