Article ID: | iaor20119150 |
Volume: | 104 |
Issue: | 8 |
Start Page Number: | 634 |
End Page Number: | 644 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2011 |
Journal: | Agricultural Systems |
Authors: | Hyytiinen Kari, Niemi Jarkko K, Koikkalainen Kauko, Palosuo Taru, Salo Tapio |
Keywords: | crop yield |
The study develops a bio‐economic crop management model that internalizes the environmental cost of nitrate pollution, accounts for stochastic weather, and includes an option for split fertilization. The integrated model is designed to indicate whether a producer can benefit from applying fertilizer several times during the growing season, in response to crop needs, rather than a single time, at sowing. The model is parameterized for the cultivation of spring malting barley (