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Economic Evaluation of Precision Crop Protection Measures

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Precision Crop Protection - the Challenge and Use of Heterogeneity

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This chapter analyzes the economic benefits of precision crop protection based on experimental data for site-specific application of herbicides in winter cereals, maize and sugar beets in Western Europe. Despite of additional costs for weed sensing and application technology, site-specific weed control resulted in higher economic return compared to conventional uniform applications even over periods of several years.

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  1. Association for Technology and Structures in Agriculture (KTBL), Bartningstrasse 49, D-64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Jan Ole Schroers & Martin Kunisch

  2. Department of Weed Sciences (360b), University of Hohenheim, D-70599, Stuttgart, Germany

    Roland Gerhards

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  1. Jan Ole Schroers
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Correspondence to Jan Ole Schroers .

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  1. , Institute of Crop Science and Resource C, University of Bonn, Nussallee 9, Bonn, 53115, Germany

    Erich-Christian Oerke

  2. , Department of Weed Sciences, University of Hohenheim, Otto-Sanderstrasse 5, Stuttgart, 70599, Germany

    Roland Gerhards

  3. , Department of Geography, Remote Sensing, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 166, Bonn, 53115, Germany

    Gunter Menz

  4. , Institute of Crop Science and Resource C, University of Bonn, Nussallee 9, Bonn, 53115, Germany

    Richard A. Sikora

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Schroers, J.O., Gerhards, R., Kunisch, M. (2010). Economic Evaluation of Precision Crop Protection Measures. In: Oerke, EC., Gerhards, R., Menz, G., Sikora, R. (eds) Precision Crop Protection - the Challenge and Use of Heterogeneity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9277-9_26

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