@article{Finger:277005,
      recid = {277005},
      author = {Finger, R. and Bocker, T. and Britz, W. and Mohring, N.},
      title = {An Economic and Environmental Assessment of a Glyphosate  Ban for the Example of Maize Production},
      address = {2018-07},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {The effects of a glyphosate ban on cultivation of silage  maize are simulated using a spatially explicit bio-economic  model that accounts for different pre- and post-sowing weed  control strategies and production risks. We analyse the  effects of a glyphosate ban on farmers  choices of  field-level weed control strategies. These strategies are  evaluated in two environmental dimensions. More  specifically, we consider a pesticide load indicator to  assess environmental toxicity, fate and human health  effects as well as the energy demand of the agricultural  system. We find that a glyphosate ban leads to a  significant reduction of the pesticide load of silage maize  production. However, a glyphosate ban also leads to  somewhat higher energy consumption. 

Acknowledgement :  We  thank Ganga Ram Maharjan and Thomas Gaiser from the Crop  Science Group of University of Bonn for providing yield  data for this research. Furthermore, we thank the plant  protection consultants of the Chamber of Agriculture of NRW  and of the Chamber of Agriculture of Lower Saxony for  providing valuable information supporting this research.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/277005},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.277005},
}