Performance results and characteristics of adopters of genetically engineered soybeans in Delaware

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 282-292

  Bernard, John C ^a   Pesek Jr , John D ^a   Fan, Chunbo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

GE soybeans; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 18244377683     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500005840     Document Type: Review

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