Sample selection model assessing professional scouting programs and pesticide use in cotton production

Jet Yee and Walter Ferguson
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Jet Yee: Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 1301 New York Ave. NW, Room 532, Washington, DC 20005-4788, Postal: Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 1301 New York Ave. NW, Room 532, Washington, DC 20005-4788
Walter Ferguson: Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 1301 New York Ave. NW, Room 532, Washington, DC 20005-4788, Postal: Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 1301 New York Ave. NW, Room 532, Washington, DC 20005-4788

Agribusiness, 1996, vol. 12, issue 3, 291-300

Abstract: A sample selection model is estimated using data from a 1989 survey of cotton farmers in the 14 major producing states to assess the effects of the farmer's participation in a professional scouting program on pesticide use in cotton production. Our results, based on 1989 conditions, indicate that participation in a professional scouting program increases yield and the number of treatments per acre of pesticides (broadly defined to include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, desiccants|defoliants, and growth regulators). Use of pest-resistant plants reduces the number of pesticide treatments per acre and irrigation increases the number of treatments per acre. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6297(199605/06)12:3<291::AID-AGR8>3.0.CO;2-W

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