What Is the Price of Information?

J.L. Willers, M.R. Williams, T.L. Wagner, and A.L. Olson


 
ABSTRACT

Use of a standardized scouting protocol for insects in cotton permits the comparison of management tactics between different years. This comparison suggests how improvements can be made, providing the development of better management strategies for future crops. Integration of insect counts with plant maps also supplies additional insight for developing better management policy. It is proposed that not making use of the sample data for post-season analyses can result in unnecessary applications of pesticides for future crops. These unnecessary applications represent wasteful expenditures of capital. Misinterpretations of cotton fruiting dynamics can also occur when post-season analyses are not pursued. The example analysis given here represents the type of results expected to be obtained from the use of statistical and graphical analyses of data obtained during the scouting of actual cotton production fields.



Reprinted from 1992 Proceedings Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 783 - 786
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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