Conservation tillage and input use |
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Authors: | N D Uri |
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Institution: | (1) ERS/NRED/PMTB (Rm. 428), U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1301 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 2005, USA, US |
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Abstract: | There continues to be a question as to the overall effectiveness of conservation tillage practices in reducing the impact
of agricultural production on the environment. While it is generally recognized that water runoff and soil erosion will decline
further, as tillage and mulch tillage systems are not used more extensively on cropland, what will happen to pesticide and
fertilizer use remains uncertain. To gain some insight into this, the conservation tillage adoption decision is modelled.
On the assumption that the decision to adopt conservation tillage is a two-step procedure, the first decision is whether or
not to adopt a conservation tillage production system and the second concerns the extent to which conservation tillage should
be used – appropriate models of the Cragg and Heckman (dominance) type are estimated. Based on farm-level data on corn production
in the United States for 1987, the profile of a farm on which conservation tillage was adopted is that the cropland had above-average
slope and experienced above-average rainfall, the farm was a cash grain enterprise, and it had an above-average expenditure
on pesticides and a below-average expenditure on fuel and custom pesticide applications. Additionally, for a farm adopting
a no-tillage production practice, an above-average expenditure was made on fertilizer.
Received: 18 September 1995 · Accepted: 6 December 1995 |
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Keywords: | Agricultural production Conservation tillage Pesticide use Tillage systems |
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