Optimal strategies for regional cultivar testing

John P. Brennan, Ross S. Kingwell, Fiona M. Thomson and Brian R. Cullis

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1998, vol. 42, issue 3, 18

Abstract: In undertaking cultivar trials, the variability of the response of the cultivars to the different environments in which they are grown introduces the possibility of release errors and non‐release errors in the decisions made on the basis of the trial results. In this article a model is developed that accounts for the economic costs of those errors as well as the costs of operating the trials, and enables the features of the optimal cultivar testing program to be identified. The model is illustrated by application to wheat cultivar trials in central and southern NSW.

Keywords: Crop; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.117231

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