An Analysis of Climate Impacts on Herbicide, Insecticide, and Fungicide Expenditures

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• Journal Title:
  Agronomy
• Personal Author:
  Rhodes, L. A. ; McCarl, B. A.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CPO (Climate Program Office)
• Description:
  The climate alters pest populations and in turn, pesticide use and cost as well as use of other pest treatments. This paper analyzes the effect of the climate on pesticide expenditures by category, namely: fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides. This is done by econometrically estimating the effects of climate variables such as mean temperature and precipitation as well as the number of hot days, cold days, and wet days on the mean and variance of expenditures by category. The estimates are performed for corn, soybeans, spring and winter wheat, and potatoes. We find that climate factors influence fungicide, herbicide, and insecticide expenditures and that this influence is heterogeneous, varying in nature across crops and pesticide categories. Moreover, we find that climate extremes are more important in determining pesticide expenditures than climate averages in several cases.
• Keywords:
  Agriculture Climate Change Pesticides Climate Change
• Source:
  Agronomy 2020, 10(5), 745
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10050745
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA12OAR4310097
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:44c8a351e1e3380d263917733e4af250f869697b010b043700d47bc711429e9e
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/51196/noaa_51196_DS1.pdf
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