Reducing the impact of Sclerotinia disease by determining optimum crop rotations using dynamic programming
| dc.creator | Vosough Ahmadi, Bouda | |
| dc.creator | Burnett, Fiona J. | |
| dc.creator | Young, Caroline S. | |
| dc.creator | McQuilken, Mark P. | |
| dc.creator | Stott, Alistair W. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T17:54:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T07:14:15Z | |
| dc.description | Sclerotinia rot is a disease caused by the fungus Sclerotinina sclerotiorum which affects a wide range of crops and causes major yield and economic losses. Crop rotation is an important strategy for minimising losses. A dynamic programming (DP) model was developed to study the trade-offs between state of the land, severity of sclerotinia and financial impacts as a result of different cropping decisions. Results showed that rotation and treatment against sclerotinia was financially justified yet permitted intensive yet sustainable production of susceptible food crops in the long-run. Allocation of even a small proportion of cropping decisions to break crops coupled with treatments in the rotation mitigated long-term build-up of sclerotia in land. However in the short-run, high proportions and high frequencies of cropping decisions need to be either allocated to break crops or treated-susceptible crops in order to avoid the disease and to generate profit. Results showed that DP methodology provides a useful framework to explore the trade-offs between crop rotation and growing high value susceptible crops in the long- and short-term in relation to plant diseases in arable agriculture that are at the heart of sustainable food production and land use. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.152213 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/152213/files/leergworkingpaper75C.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/152213 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/586027 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/152213 | |
| dc.title | Reducing the impact of Sclerotinia disease by determining optimum crop rotations using dynamic programming | |
| dc.type | Text |