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Economic Impact of Introducing Rotations on Long Island Potato Farms

Year: 1984

Type: article

Abstract: Potatoes have been grown continuously on many Long Island (New York) fields. Environmental concerns have raised questions about the continued usage of this practice. A farm-level linear programming model was used to investigate the economic impacts of crop rotations which result in reduced potato acreage. Crop rotations (an Integrated Pest Management tactic) reduced total pesticide use, but also reduced returns above variable costs as successively stringent rotation requirements were forced into the solution. The crop rotations which caused the least effect on income were identified.

Source: Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

DOI: 10.1017/s0899367x00000544

Authors: Sheryl S. Lazarus, Gerald B. White

Institution: Cornell University

Language: English

Topic: Agricultural economics and policies

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1594829241

FWCI: 2.432

Cites: 5

Cited by: 24

Related to: 10