Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T19:25:07.078Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Economic Feasibility of Tree Fruit Integrated Pest Management in the Northeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

G. B. White  and
Peter Thompson
G. B. White
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853–3098
Peter Thompson
Affiliation:
Merrist Wood Agricultural College, Worplesdon Near Guilford, Surrey County, England
Get access

Abstract

A pilot tree fruit pest management program in Wayne County, New York was evaluated. Thirty-three blocks of fruit were matched for 26 participants in the pilot program and for 23 nonparticipants. Participants reduced pesticide costs and total pest management costs in comparison to nonparticipants. Factors which will affect the adoption of Integrated Pest Management in other locations include the attitudes of growers, farm size, and the density of fruit production. Integrated Pest Management programs are economically feasible for several other areas of high tree fruit density in the Northeast.

Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Fall 1982 , pp. 39 - 45
Copyright
Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

This research was supported by cooperative agreement 58–319V-02702 between Cornell University and the Economic Research Service, USDA.

References

Apple, J. L., Benepal, P. S., Berger, R., Bird, G. W., Maxwell, F., Ruesink, W. G., Santelman, P., and White, G. B. Integrated Pest Management: A Program of Research for the State Agricultural Experiment Stations and the Colleges of 1890. Committee Report, the Intersociety Consortium for Plant Protection for the Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy. Raleigh, NC, September 1979.Google Scholar
Christensen, R. L. and Prokopy, R. J. “Impact on Costs and Energy Requirements of Adopting Alternate Middle Spray Techniques in Apple Orchards.” Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council 8 (1979): 243–247.Google Scholar
Tette, J. P., Glass, E. H., Bruno, D., Way, D. New York Tree Fruit Pest Management Project, 1973–1978. New York's Food and Life Sciences Bulletin No. 81, September 1979.Google Scholar
Thompson, P. and White, G. B. An Economic Evaluation of the Potential for Tree Fruit Integrated Pest Management in the Northeast. A.E. Res. 82–14, Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 1982. 55 pp.Google Scholar
von Runker, R., Lawless, E. W., and Meiners, A. F. Production, Distribution, Use, and Environmental Impact of Selected Pesticides. Report for the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs and the Council on Environmental Quality. Washington, D.C., 1974.Google Scholar
Webb, S. H. “Preliminary Pesticide Use of Selected Deciduous Fruits in the United States, 1978.” Preliminary ESS Staff Report, Washington, DC, June 1981.Google Scholar