2007•Unpublished venueOpen access
Adoption of Conservation-Tillage Practices in Cotton Production
Swagata Banerjee, Steven W. Martin, Roland K. Roberts, James A. Larson, Robert J. Hogan, Jason L. Johnson, Kenneth W. Paxton, Jeanne M. Reeves, Banerjee, Swagata (Ban), Martin, Steven W., Roberts, Roland K., Larson, James A., Hogan, Robert J., Johnson, Jason L., Paxton, Kenneth W., Reeves, Jeanne M.
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Abstract
Agricultural Resource Management Survey data for 2003 were used to estimate logit models for adoption of conservation-tillage practices and herbicide-resistant/stacked-gene cottonseed in the United States. No endogenous relationship between these two adoption decisions was noticed. That is, the decision to simultaneously adopt those two technologies was not evidenced. However, results indicate each technology impacted the other independently. Prior experience with no-till was observed to have significant, positive impacts on both technologies, while the representative farmer’s college education, gross farm income, age, farming tenure , and a “highly erodible land” classification were not significant factors in determining the adoption of either technology.