Claim · model-written summary
A 67 kg ha−1 return target reduced inoculation success to 7% in Indiana.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxe2 - Outcome
- successe0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 7e0
- Qualifier
- return on investment of 67 kg ha −1 (a 2:1 return)e0
- Setting
- Indianae1
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Verbatim
e0“Attaining a return on investment of 67 kg ha −1 (a 2:1 return) reduced success to 11, 2, 1, 7, and 0.2%, for the five states, respectively.”
e1“25% for Indiana”
e2“soybean sale price of $0.33 kg −1”
Title
Probability of Yield Response to Inoculants in Fields with a History of Soybean
J. L. De Bruin; P. Pedersen; S. P. Conley; et al. Crop Science 2010. doi:10.2135/cropsci2009.04.0185
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Across 63 environments, inoculants did not produce a soybean yield response significantly different from zero relative to untreated control.
- Observation At the stated sale price, Nebraska soybean inoculation had a 59% probability of break-even economic return.
- Observation At the stated sale price, Wisconsin soybean inoculation had a 36% probability of break-even economic return.
- Observation At the stated sale price, Minnesota soybean inoculation had a 25% probability of break-even economic return.
- Observation At the stated sale price, Indiana soybean inoculation had a 25% probability of break-even economic return.
- Observation At the stated sale price, Iowa soybean inoculation had a 4% probability of break-even economic return.
- Observation A 67 kg ha−1 return target reduced inoculation success to 11% in Nebraska.
- Observation A 67 kg ha−1 return target reduced inoculation success to 2% in Wisconsin.
- Observation A 67 kg ha−1 return target reduced inoculation success to 1% in Minnesota.
- Observation A 67 kg ha−1 return target reduced inoculation success to 0.2% in Iowa.
- Recommendation The authors concluded that inoculant application offers limited prospects for soybean yield or economic return in upper Midwestern soils previously planted to soybean.