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Economic Comparisons Between Ecologically-Based & Traditional Cotton Pest Management Systems

C.R. Stark, Jr., K.J. Bryant, J.R. Ruberson and S.C. Phatak and W.J. Lewis


 
ABSTRACT

Recent research findings on the interactions of beneficial insects, cotton, and biopesticides are generating new technologies for cotton production systems in the Southeastern United States. Eradication of the boll weevil from this region allows expanded consideration of ecologically-based pest management systems. Despite savings in Variable, Fixed, and Total Costs, lower yield levels realized from the ecologically-based systems result in lower Net Returns per acre.



Reprinted from Proceedings of the 1999 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 348 - 349
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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