scholarly journals Restricting Pesticide Use: The Impact on Profitability by Farm Size

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Whittaker ◽  
Biing-Hwan Lin ◽  
Utpal Vasavada
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Corn Belt ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Lake States ◽  
Large Farms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Grain Farms

AbstractA sample of 226 cash grain farms in the Lake States-Corn Belt region are analyzed to estimate the impact of restricting pesticide use on profits. These 226 farms are classified into small, medium, and large farms according to their sale revenues. The results suggest the existence of pest management practices that could substantially reduce pesticide use without incurring economic losses. The reductions in profits associated with gradual reductions in pesticide expenditure appear to increase with farm size.

Adoption of Integrated Pest Management Tactics by Wisconsin Farmers

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 756-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarissa M. Hammond ◽  
Edward C. Luschei ◽  
Chris M. Boerboom ◽  
Pete J. Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Resistance Management ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Large Farms

Agronomic research and extension personnel generally recognize the benefits of integrated pest management (IPM) but IPM practices have not been rapidly adopted by farmers. In order for applied research and extension programs to be as influential as possible, strategies and tactics must be evaluated in the context of the real-world constraints experienced by farmers. We investigated the linkage between farmers' pest management behaviors, attitudes, and constraints by analyzing an extensive corn pest management survey distributed throughout Wisconsin in 2002. Our objectives were to (1) create a benchmark against which future changes in pest management practices could be detected and (2) explore potential associations between practices and farm characteristics, e.g., farm size or commodity produced. A total of 213 farmers responded with descriptions of their operations; weed, insect, and disease pest management practices; crop consultant usage; interactions with their local agrichemical dealer; and attitudes regarding pest management decision-making. We compared the relative responses of cash-grain and dairy farmers as well as managers of large and small farms. Larger farm size and percentage of operation in cash-grain production were associated with an increased frequency of rotating crops, rotating herbicide families, and use of a broadcast herbicide application. Managers of large farms and/or cash-grain crops also more frequently indicated considering the level of pest control, price, carryover potential, weed resistance management, environmental safety, and risk to the applicator than did dairy or small-sized operations. Cash-grain farmers had significantly higher scores on a calculated IPM index than did dairy farmers (P < 0.0001). We also found a significant positive relationship between farm size and IPM score (P < 0.0001). Our results provide a benchmark for future comparisons of IPM adoption rates in Wisconsin and highlight the association between IPM research/extension and farmers' management behavior.

scholarly journals The Microeconomic Impact of IPM Adoption: Theory and Application

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Profit Function ◽  
Fresh Market ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Adoption Theory ◽  
Insignificant Effect ◽  
The Impact

This paper develops a methodology to calculate the impact of integrated pest management (IPM) on pesticide use, yields, and farm profits. The methodology is applied to the IPM adoption among fresh market tomato producers in eight states. The method is of general applicability. It accounts for self-selectivity and simultaneity, and the pesticide demand and yield equations are theoretically consistent with a profit function. The results support the notion that fresh market tomato growers who adopt IPM for insects and diseases apply significantly less insecticides and fungicides, respectively, than do those who do not adopt IPM; IPM adoption has an insignificant effect on yields and a small effect on profits.

scholarly journals Integrated Pest Management on the Web and on CD-ROM: Two University of California Projects for Helping Farmers and Gardeners Solve Pest Problems

HortScience ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 983a-983
Author(s):  
Mary L. Flint ◽  
Joyce F. Strand
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
State University ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Washington State University ◽  
Management Consultants

Over the past decade, the University of California Statewide IPM Project has been extending pest management information electronically to farmers, pest management consultants, landscapers, and home gardeners. During this session we will demonstrate the Project's web site (http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu) and a CD-ROM developed to assist horticulture advisors, Master Gardeners, retail nursery personnel, and others who help gardeners manage pest problems. We will discuss considerations in using these programs for extending information, keeping the programs up-to-date, and integrating them into educational programs. The CD-ROM covers 40 vegetables and tree fruits, allowing users to specify visual symptoms, describe a situation, or look at color photos, video images, or line drawings to help identify the problem. Twenty-five to 35 different pests are included for each crop, with thousands of photo images. An ornamentals module will be added in 1998. Once the problem is identified, the system provides screens to confirm pest identity, learn about biology and damage, and choose management practices. For instance, users can view several common natural enemies for a pest, look up the relative toxicity of pesticides, or get details on how to prune to avoid stressing a tree. Choices focus on methods to reduce pesticide use. The program is being developed with cooperators at Oregon State University and Washington State University, and with guidance of end users. The UC IPM web site includes information on biology and management of hundreds of insect, pathogen, weed, and nematode pests on 35 crops and in landscapes and gardens with thousands of color photos linked through hypertext. Other databases on the site include weather databases, pesticide use data, and phenology databases for pests.

scholarly journals Barriers to IPM adoption for insect pests in New Zealand pastures

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Mansfield ◽  
Colin M. Ferguson ◽  
Toni White ◽  
Scott Hardwick ◽  
Sean D.G. Marshall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Insect Pests ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
Current Management ◽  
Share Information

New Zealand’s pastoral sector faces significant challenges to pest management as long-standing insecticides are deregistered. To protect their pastures, farmers need to shift from reactive responses that lead to poor economic outcomes to pre-emptive responses that are viable in the long term. Current management practices (insecticides, endophytes, biological control) for New Zealand’s pasture insect pests were assessed from the perspective of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Potential impacts from novel control strategies and emerging digital technologies were evaluated to determine how these could improve pest management. Cryptic IPM is present within the New Zealand pastoral sector: that is, farmers practise various elements of IPM but these elements are not integrated into a cohesive system, so farmers often fail to recognise pest impacts until significant economic losses have occurred. We identified important networks by which farmers, industry and researchers communicate and share information, and can develop strategies to raise awareness of IPM. To encourage adoption, farmers need to feel ownership of pasture IPM. Investment in IPM training for farmers through industry extension networks is essential to prepare farmers for the shift away from chemical insecticides to new biologically based control methods. Adoption of IPM will help pastoralists respond to current and new pest challenges.

scholarly journals Green pest management practices for sustainable buildings: Critical review

2019 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Venkata Kanaka Srivani Maddala
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Pest Control ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Sustainable Buildings ◽  
Longhorn Beetles ◽  
Harmful Use ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Target Locations

Green pest management is an environmental-friendly pest management that helps to control pests and reduces harmful use of pesticides. Pests like woodworms, longhorn beetles, fruit flies, spiders, termites and paper mites in the buildings degrade the carpets, leather, wood, cloth, food, utensils and so on. They can spread diseases, damage properties and contaminate food in our home. So, green pest management has been developed in buildings to avoid degradation and protect human health and surrounding environment. Green pest management is a relatively new concept. Its practices help to keep our building green. It includes sanitation, management, biological control, least toxic chemical pesticides and minimum use of chemicals and avoids killing of non-target species by spraying in target locations. Green Pest Control India Pvt Ltd in Borivali East, Mumbai; Herbal Pest Control Services in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India; Green Pest Management by Johnsons group in Hong Kong; Ehrlichs Green Pest control service in Pennsylvania; Eco Smart Technologies in United States; Green Pest Services Ecofriendly and Organic Pest Control at St. Lucie and Martin country and so on are providing service. This green pest management is also included in green building certification rating system for all sustainable buildings. This article describes the impact of pests on the environment and sustainable pest management practices in existing homes. It is an innovative service provider with a mission of creating a ‘happy community’ as we value and respect the various needs of our customers.

scholarly journals THE DETERMINATION OF INFLUENCE OF TOURISM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF THE HOTEL INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE REGION IN THE CRISIS PERIOD

2021 ◽  
Vol I (81) ◽  
pp. 8-25
Author(s):  
Roman Hyshchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Crisis Period ◽  
Travel Agents ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
The Impact

In a general sense, the hotel infrastructure is a component of tourism, and its quality forms and affects the level of service and integrated development of tourism and its products. The material basis of hotels and their network is clearly correlated with the determinism of the impact on tourist flows, the number of visitors to the regions, which generates new volumes and financial revenues to them. On the other hand, tourism and the tourism market account for a significant share of the economy of many countries, and one of the features of this business is the direct subordination and interdependence of tourism infrastructure (including hotel), travel agents and contractors, their impact on society, political conditions, features and trends in different time slices. At the same time, tourism today with the hotel infrastructure due to its unpopularity with tourists, is experiencing a significant crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has a significant impact on the reduction of various indicators in the field of services, including tourism. This has led to job РОЗВИТОК ПРОДУКТИВНИХ СИЛ І РЕГ ІОНАЛЬНА ЕКОНОМІКА 10 Випуск І (81), 2021 closures, economic losses, downtime or the closure of a number of related companies and their counterparties, prompting urgent responses to the analysis of the travel services market and crisis management practices during and after. In the process of research used literature, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, analogy; specific scientific: factor analysis, statistical methods. The article considers the general impact of tourism on the state of hotel infrastructure in the period before and during the pandemic of 2020-2021, forecast data for their development in the near future in global and regional dimensions as the case of Chernivtsi region, offers generalized proposals for tourism and hotel business through crisis measures, identified promising players in the market of tourist and hotel services in the post-crisis period. The results of the research can be used by local governments to develop and substantiate long-term strategic plans for the organization, management and development of tourism business and hotel infrastructure of Chernivtsi region in crisis and post-crisis periods related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Theoretical and methodological and applied developments together with the obtained results can be used in similar studies for other regions in overcoming the crisis of tourism and hotel business caused by the pandemic COVID-19.

scholarly journals Risk factors associated with Avian Influenza subtype H9 outbreaks on poultry farms in Kathmandu valley, Nepal

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tulsi Ram Gompo ◽  
Bikash Raj Shah ◽  
Surendra Karki ◽  
Pragya Koirala ◽  
Manju Maharjan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Avian Influenza ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Stream Water ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Poultry Farms

AbstractPoultry sector contributes to four percent in national GDP of Nepal. However, this sector is under threat with periodic outbreaks of Avian Influenza (AI) subtypes H5 and H9 since 2009. This has been both a both public health threat and an economic issue. Since last three years, outbreaks of AI subtype H9 has caused huge economic losses in major poultry producing areas of Nepal. However, the risk factors associated with these outbreaks have not been assessed. A retrospective case-control study was conducted from April 2018 to May 2019 in Kathmandu Valley to understand the risk factors associated with AI subtype H9 outbreaks. Out of 100 farms selected, 50 were “case” farms, confirmed positive to H9 at Central Veterinary Laboratory, Kathmandu, and other 50 farms were “control” farms, matched for farm size and locality within a radius of three km from the case farm. Each farm was visited to collect information using semi-structured questionnaire. Nineteen potential risk factors were included in the questionnaire under the broad categories: birds and farm characteristics, management aspects and biosecurity status of the farms. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis were conducted to calculate corresponding odds ratios. Identified risk factors associated with AI subtype H9 outbreaks in Kathmandu valley were: “Birds of age 31-40 days” (OR= 11.31, 95% CI: 1.31-98.02, p=0.028), “Older farms operating for >5 years” (OR= 10.9, 95% CI: 1.76-66.93, p=0.01), “Commercial layers farms” (OR=36.0, 95% CI: 0.97-1332.40, p=0.052), “Used stream water to water birds (OR= 5.7, 95% CI: 1.10-30.13, p=0.039)”, “Farms without practice of fumigation after each batch of poultry (OR= 4, 95% CI: 1.44-13.13, p=0.009)., “Farm with previous history of AI (OR= 13.8, 95% CI: 1.34-143.63, p = 0.028), “Did not applied farm boots (OR= 2.58, 95% CI: 0.98-6.80, p= 0.055), “Visitors allowed to enter the farms (OR= 2.5, 95% CI: 1.011-6.17, p = 0.047) and “No foot bath at entry of farms (OR= 3.3, 95% CI: 1.29-8.38, p = 0.013). This study depicts that outbreaks of AI subtype H9 in Kathmandu valley was related to poor management practices and biosecurity in the poultry farms. We suggest improving management practices and increase biosecurity in the farms to reduce incidences of AI subtype H9 outbreaks in Kathmandu valley.

Assessment of Pesticide Use by Commercial Landscape Maintenance and Lawn Care Firms in Georgia

1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kristine Braman ◽  
Ronald D. Oetting ◽  
Wojciech Florkowski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Treatment Decisions ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Beneficial Arthropods ◽  
Thiophanate Methyl ◽  
Lawn Care ◽  
Commercial Landscape

Questionnaires on pesticide use and pest management practices were mailed to landscape maintenance/lawn care firms in the metro-Atlanta area; 25.4% or 350 firms responded. Of these firms, 159 provide pest management services for turfgrass or ornamentals or both. Responding professionals purchased 13,210 kg AI of insecticides, 93,447 kg AI herbicide, and 3,867 kg AI of fungicides during 1993. Total area serviced by these firms was 14,770 ha. The most commonly-purchased insecticides included products containing hydramethylnon, acephate, chlorpyrifos, carbaryl, and horticultural oil. Frequently-purchased herbicides included products that contain pendimethalin, 2,4-D, glyphosate, MCPP, dicamba, oryzalin, benefin, and oxadiazon. Fungicidal products purchased by the most respondents were chlorothalonil, thiophanate-methyl, oxazoladinadione, matalayl, and triadimefon. Insecticides were most frequently applied to ornamentals (65%), while herbicides were the primary pesticide used on turf (93% preemergence, 79% postemergence). Fungicides were more evenly distributed. Prescheduled applications determined timing of application for 32% of respondents, while 46% report that monitoring of pest populations influences treatment decisions. Only 8% of respondents incorporate monitoring of beneficial arthropods into this decision-making process.

Effect of microclimatological changes on dairy cattle productionunder the coastal climate of Goa

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Das ◽  
N. P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Milk Yield ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Maximum Temperature ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Unit Increase ◽  
Sahiwal Cows ◽  
Daily Milk Yield ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Daily Milk

It was observed that in Deoni and Cross bred cow daily change of relative humidity, maximum temperature and minimum temperatures had significant (P < 0.01) effect on daily milk yield of cow. It was inferred that the effect was more pronounced on cross bred cows than that of Deoni and Sahiwal cows. Between the two indigenous cows effect of micro climatological changes was more pronounced on Deoni breed than Sahiwal breed of cow. It was also observed that overall daily milk yield was reduced by 1 g (P > 0.05), 6 g (P > 0.05), 22 g (P > 0.05) and 78 g (P < 0.01) per unit increase of air temperature, relative humidity, temperature humidity index and maximum temperature respectively while data were analyzed as a whole considering all the cows of all the breeds together. Economic losses resulting from temperature-induced reductions in production may justify mitigation of these temperature increases through changes in management practices such as installation of sprinklers in sheds, evaporative cooling of barns, feeding and nutritional strategies, and/or selection of more heat-tolerant animals. So, risk management, by considering perceived thermal challenges, then assessing the potential consequences and acting accordingly, will reduce the impact of such challenges.

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