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Abstract
A ten-year linear programming
model of a representative dryland
crop farm in North Central
Kansas is used to develop and
illustrate procedures for
analyzing economic impacts of
the elimination of one or more
pesticides on an individual
farm. Atrazine is used as an
example pesticide because of its
widespread use and because
concerns about atrazine have
been expressed in the United
States and in other countries.
An important outcome is that
impacts on grain sorghum
would likely be greater than
impacts on corn because more
alternative and effective
herbicides are available for
corn.