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Economic Impact of Introducing Rotations on Long Island Potato Farms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Sheryl S. Lazarus  and
Gerald B. White
Sheryl S. Lazarus
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-0398
Gerald B. White
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-0398
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Abstract

Potatoes have been grown continuously on many Long Island (New York) fields. Environmental concerns have raised questions about the continued usage of this practice. A farm-level linear programming model was used to investigate the economic impacts of crop rotations which result in reduced potato acreage. Crop rotations (an Integrated Pest Management tactic) reduced total pesticide use, but also reduced returns above variable costs as successively stringent rotation requirements were forced into the solution. The crop rotations which caused the least effect on income were identified.

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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , October 1984 , pp. 221 - 228
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Copyright © 1984 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This research was supported by Cooperative Agreement No. 58-32U4-2-389 between the Agricultural Research Service, USDA and Cornell University. Appreciation is expressed to N. L. Bills, G. L. Casler, W. A. Knoblauch, R. A. Milligan, and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments.

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