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Bioeconomic Weed Management Models for Sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris) Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

John M. Shribbs
Affiliation:
ICI Americas, Inc., P.O. Box 760, Mt. View, CA 94042
Donald W. Lybecker
Affiliation:
Dep. Agric. and Res. Econ., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO 80523
Edward E. Schweizer
Affiliation:
Agric. Res. Serv., U.S. Dep. Agric., Crops Res. Lab., 1701 Center Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80526

Abstract

Bioeconomic sugarbeet weed management models for preplant, postemergence, and layby herbicides, and late-season handweeding decisions are presented. The personal computer/spreadsheet models are based on number of weed seed in soil, field survey of weed populations, growth stages of weeds and sugarbeets, expected yield loss from weeds, herbicide weed control, weed control cost, and sugarbeet price. The models incorporate two producer risk levels. Several weed scenarios were used to verify the models for reasonable recommendations.

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Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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