PESTICIDE ASSESSMENT OF FIELD CORN AND SOYBEANS: NORTHEASTERN STATES

Paul W. Bergman, Ronald A. Davis, Stanford N. Fertig, Fred Kuchler, Robert McDowell, Craig Osteen, Armand L. Padula, Kent L. Smith and Robert F. Torla

No 277780, Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: This report summarizes the pesticide assessment for corn and soybeans in the Northeast. Without insecticides, cutworms would cause the greatest corn yield losses and Mexican bean beetles the greatest soybean yield losses. Seed rots and seedling blights would cause substantial corn yield losses without pesticide control, while nematodes would reduce soybean yields. Among the herbicides, the loss of triazines would cause the greatest corn yield losses and acetanilides the greatest soybean losses. This report includes pest rankings, estimates of acreages treated with pesticides or other pest management practices, and estimates of pest losses with and without pesticide use, for insects, diseases, nematodes, and weeds.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36
Date: 1985-12
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.277780

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