Impact of management practices on prevalence of soybean Sclerotinia stem rot in the north-central United States and on farmers' decisions under uncertainty

Plant Disease

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1048-1058

  Mila, A L ^a,d   Carriquiry, A L ^b   Zhao, J ^c   Yang, X B ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c Kearney Agricultural Center ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian behavior; White mold

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZERS; HERBICIDES; MANURES; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PROFIT MAXIMIZATIONS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

FUNGI; GLYCINE MAX; SCLEROTINIA; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 0042239235     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.2003.87.9.1048     Document Type: Article

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