IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/revage/v11y1989i1p145-156..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Potential Impact of Biological Nitrogen Fixation: The Case of Corn

Author

Listed:
  • Catherine Halbrendt
  • Melvin Blase

Abstract

With the discovery of gene-splicing technique and advances in biotechnology, biological nitrogen fixation in corn could occur. This study evaluates the impact of BNF on U.S. nitrogen fertilizer demand and corn-planted acreage. An econometric model was constructed. Three substitutive levels of 25, 33 and 50 percent reduction of current application rates were examined. The results showed a decrease of 18, 25 and 36 percent of nitrogen fertilizer demand and about 1 percent in acreage planted as a result of lower production costs.

Suggested Citation

  • Catherine Halbrendt & Melvin Blase, 1989. "Potential Impact of Biological Nitrogen Fixation: The Case of Corn," Review of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 11(1), pages 145-156.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:revage:v:11:y:1989:i:1:p:145-156.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/aepp/11.1.145
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Caswell, Margriet F. & Fuglie, Keith O. & Klotz, Cassandra A., 1994. "Agricultural Biotechnology: An Economic Perspective," Agricultural Economic Reports 262025, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Tauer, Loren W., 1990. "Ex-ante Economic Assessment of Agriculture Biotechnology," Staff Papers 121528, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:revage:v:11:y:1989:i:1:p:145-156.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press or Christopher F. Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.