SPATIAL BREAK-EVEN VARIABILITY FOR CUSTOM HIRE VARIABLE RATE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION

S.B. Mahajanashetti, Burton C. English and Roland K. Roberts

No 21676, 1999 Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: A theoretical model identified ranges of spatial variability required within multiple-land-class fields for economically viable variable rate technology (VRT) and the spatial variability required for maximum return to VRT. An example illustrated that return to VRT and the viable range of spatial variability increased for higher corn and nitrogen prices.

Keywords: Precision farming; site-specific farming; nitrogen; corn; spatial variability; yield variability; profit function; Land Economics/Use; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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