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Timing Nitrogen Fertilizer Application to Reduce Nitrogen Losses to the Environment

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1999

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Huang, Wen-Yuan, Heifner, R. G., Taylor, H., and Uri, N. D., 1999, Timing Nitrogen Fertilizer Application to Reduce Nitrogen Losses to the Environment: Water Resources Management, v. 14, 35 p.

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The advantage of using insurance to help a farmer adopt a best nitrogen management plan (BNMP) that reduces the impact of agricultural production on the environment is analytically and empirically demonstrated. Using an expected value analysis, it is shown that an insurance program can be structured so as to reduce a farmer's cost of bearing the adoption risk associated with changing production practices and, thus, to improve the farmer's certainty equivalent net return thereby promoting the adoption of a BNMP. Using the adoption of growing-season only N fertilizer application in Iowa as a case study, it is illustrated how insurance may be used to promote the adoption of this practice to reduce N fertilizer use. It is shown that it [...]

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • Northeast CASC

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