A conceptual framework for judging the precision agriculture hypothesis with regard to site-specific nitrogen application

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-110

  Bachmaier, Martin ^a   Gandorfer, Markus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confidence interval for the difference; Economic optimum; Economic potential; Nitrogen rate; Precision agriculture hypothesis; Quadratic model; Site specific

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NITROGEN;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; THALHAUSEN;

EID: 61349136333     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-008-9069-x     Document Type: Article

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