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| Title: | Special Topic: Chesapeake Bay Management -- Welfare Implications of Restricted Triazine Herbicide Use in the Chesapeake Bay Region |
| Authors: | Gianessi, Leonard P.
Kopp, Raymond J.
Kuch, Peter J.
Puffer, Cynthia
Torla, Robert |
| Issue Date: | 1988 |
| Series/Report no.: | Marine Resource Economics
Vol. 5 No. 3 |
| Abstract: | The United States Environmental Protection Agency has responsibility under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIERA) to formulate pesticide policies on the basis of risk-benefit analyses. To measure the benefits of pesticide use, one must look at the losses in consumer and producer surpluses that would accompany the banning of a particular pesticide. A typical scenario is one in which the banned pesticide is replaced by another that is more costly and/or less effective. The resulting decrease in supply raises the price of the crop on which the banned pesticide is used, and may alter the prices of substitute and complementary crops as well. This article presents a simulation model of com and soybean production in the Chesapeake Bay drainage area to investigate the economic implications of a local ban on triazine herbicides. It reports estimates of lost producer and consumer surplus and the effect that the ban would have on the
profitability of agricultural production in the region. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/48462 |
| Identifiers: | 0738-1360 |
| Institution/Association: | Marine Resource Economics>Volume 05, Number 3, 1988 |
| Total Pages: | 16 |
| From Page: | 243 |
| To Page: | 258 |
| Collections: | Volume 05, Number 3, 1988
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