The relative importance of herbicide use for conservation tillage adoption by U.S. corn and soybean producers.

ABSTRACT: Herbicide use is widespread in agricultural production to control weeds prior to and after planting and to "burndown" weeds in the spring for conservation tillage. Whether conservation tillage adoption leads to higher herbicide usage has been a question of policy relevance for decades in the United States. Older U.S. studies using standard statistical and economic techniques have not consistently demonstrated higher herbicide usage levels among producers practicing conservation tillage, but these studies did not fully account for other practices, economic, or agronomic factors. To provide a more timely and comprehensive understanding of the importance of herbicides to conservation tillage, this study achieves two objectives with the most recent, nationally representative data from the US D

SUBMITTER: Dong F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11573181 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature