Effect of risk and incentives on contracts: The case of farm operators in Iowa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Longitudinal data on Iowa landowner–operator contracts are used to examine how the mean, variance, and skewness of expected farmland returns affected contract terms from 2008 to 2019. To control for unobserved operator risk preferences and ability as a fixed effect, the sample includes operators with multiple contracts.
Jun Yeong Lee
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What Is New for the Mechanisms of Plant Resistance to Paraquat After Decades of Research?
AgricultureParaquat is one of the most widely used nonselective herbicides globally. Although the emergence of weed resistance to paraquat has progressed relatively slowly since the first reported case in Japan in 1980, it has been steadily increasing.
Liyun Zhang +6 more
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Fitness of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Current Knowledge and Implications for Management
Plants, 2019 Herbicide resistance is the ultimate evidence of the extraordinary capacity of weeds to evolve under stressful conditions. Despite the extraordinary plant fitness advantage endowed by herbicide resistance mutations in agroecosystems under herbicide ...
Martin M. Vila-Aiub
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Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract We derive price premiums for patented or trademarked apple varieties, also known as “club apples,” compared to open‐variety apples. We use an expansive retail scanner dataset, along with unique data on apple taste characteristics, to estimate monthly club apple premiums for 2008–2018.
Modhurima Dey Amin +3 more
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Axant™ Flex cotton response to topramezone applied early- or mid-postemergence
Weed TechnologyThe continued development of herbicide-resistant weeds, such as Palmer amaranth, represents a growing concern across the United States Cotton Belt. To mitigate this issue, BASF Corp.
Megan M. Singletary +5 more
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EFFECT DIFFERENT CONCENTRATIONS OF HERBICIDE TRIBENURON-METHYL (GRANSTAR) ON SOME TRAITS OF GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVTY OF WHEAT(Triticum eastivum L.). [PDF]
Mesopotamia Journal of Agriculture, 2012 The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of time of application of herbicide tribenuron-methyl (granstar) in high concentrations on the growth and productivity of wheat seed Triticum aestivum L .varity (IPa-95).
Nahla Salim Hammok
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The interaction of pyroxasulfone and flumioxazin applied preemergence for the control of multiple-herbicide-resistant waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus) in soybean [PDF]
, 2022 James Ferrier +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Eco‐labels inform consumers about the sustainable attributes of a product, but consumer face challenges to differentiate and select for specific attributes. Certification programs are similarly challenged to incentivize adoption of sustainable practices in product supply chains when consumer ability to differentiate sustainable attributes is ...
Nicolas Gatti +5 more
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Weed control and crop safety with premixed tolpyralate and bromoxynil on cereals
Weed TechnologyCorteva Agriscience recently registered a premix of tolpyralate and bromoxynil in the United States and Canada for weed control in cereal fields. Limited information exists on weed control efficacy and crop safety with this new herbicide premixture ...
Seshadri S. Reddy +5 more
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Economic analysis of integrated weed management in field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Plant, Soil and Environment, 2003 Field experiments were conducted in field bean in the north-eastern part of theRepublicofCroatiato compare weed control and crop response under different management practices within the critical period of field bean production. The practices consisted in
E. Štefanić +2 more
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