Optimizing Canola Production: Fertilization, Crop Protection and Genetic Yield Potential
Examine the individual and combined impact of three types of crop inputs: fertilization, crop protection and genetic potential for yield for canola (oil rapeseedl).
IPNI-2002-CAN-MB17
10 May 2002
Project Description
- Agronomists traditionally work with yield response information that is based on research on the effect of a single input. However, this way of measuring the value of an individual input overestimates the value of that input when it must be fit with all other inputs into the farmer’s cropping system, implying that the yield response to the input in question (e.g., fertilizer) can be achieved without a simultaneous investment in other inputs (e.g., high yielding genetics and crop protection). In order to understand the real value of those inputs within the entire cropping system, we are proposing to examine the individual and combined impact of three general types of crop inputs: fertilization, crop protection and genetic potential for yield.