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An on farm trial supports risk reducing benefits from site specific phosphorus and potassium management.

Treatment: site-specific P&K managemente0
Outcome: risk-reducing benefitse0
Direction: risk-reducinge0
Setting: Eastern Cornbelte0

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“Empirical evidence from an on-farm trial of site-specific P&K management in the Eastern Cornbelt supports the hypothesis that precision farming can have risk-reducing benefits”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 491–666

Title

RISK MANAGEMENT POTENTIAL OF PRECISION FARMING TECHNOLOGIES

Lowenberg-DeBoer, James RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

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Method / resource A theoretical model suggests plausible conditions in which precision farming reduces temporal yield variability.

Intervention effectauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

An on-farm trial supported risk reduction from site-specific phosphorus and potassium management.

Treatment: site-specific P&K managemente0
Outcome: risk-reducing benefitse0
Direction: risk-reducinge0
Setting: Eastern Cornbelte0

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“Empirical evidence from an on-farm trial of site-specific P&K management in the Eastern Cornbelt supports the hypothesis that precision farming can have risk-reducing benefits.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 500–676

Title

Risk Management Potential of Precision Farming Technologies

J. Lowenberg-DeBoer Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 1999. doi:10.1017/s1074070800008555

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Method / resource A theoretical model suggests precision farming can reduce temporal yield variability under plausible circumstances.

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The review found that crop rotation practices offer agronomic and economic benefits and can reduce agricultural risk.

Outcome: agronomic and economic benefitse0

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“conservation agriculture practices, such as crop rotation systems, present bothm agronomic and economic benefits and can be strategies for reducing the risks inherent to agricultural activity”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1402–1593

Title

Economic and risk evaluation of crop rotation systems: literature review

Fernando Pires Vieira; Alcido Elenor Wander Quaestum 2024. doi:10.22167/2675-441x-2024861

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Observation The review identified 25 relevant articles; 76% covered only economic analysis and 24% included risk analysis.

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Observationauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

GE technology reduced production risk exposure.

Taxon: cornZea mays subsp. mayse1
Treatment: GE technologye1
Outcome: risk exposuree1
Direction: reducinge1

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“reducing risk exposure”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 413–435

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“A significant part of the benefits of GE technology comes from protecting corn yield and reducing risk exposure”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 324–435

Title

Selecting corn hybrids in the transgenic era

Joe Lauer; Guanming Shi; Jean-Paul Chavas Proceedings of the Integrated Crop Management Conference 2015. doi:10.31274/icm-180809-165

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Observation Some GE corn technologies increased yield.
Observation Some GE traits decreased corn yield.
Observation GE technology protected corn yield.
Mechanism Gene interactions affected corn productivity through yield lag and yield drag.
Observation New GE technologies often required 3 to 4 years to reach conventional hybrid yields.

Recommendationauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivebasis n/a

Claim · model-written summary

Bt corn use is an important strategy for reducing aflatoxin risk.

Taxon: cornZea mays subsp. mayse3
Outcome: reducing aflatoxin riske3

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“These results suggest that Bt corn use is an important strategy in reducing aflatoxin risk, with corresponding economic benefits”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 692–820

Title

The Impact of Bt Corn on Aflatoxin-Related Insurance Claims in the United States

Jina Yu; David A. Hennessy; Felicia Wu Scientific Reports 2020. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-66955-1

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Reduced tillage and compaction were associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.

Taxon: sugarcanee1
Treatment: reducing tillage and compactione0
Outcome: water quality riske1
Direction: reducee1

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“They included improving fallow management and reducing tillage and compaction, practices that have been promoted for production rather than N discharge benefits.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1452–1613

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“agronomic practices that could be promoted to reduce water quality risk while maintaining or improving yields of sugarcane crops”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1793–1921

Title

Assessing water quality for cropping management practices: A new approach for dissolved inorganic nitrogen discharged to the Great Barrier Reef

Peter J. Thorburn; Jody S. Biggs; Kevin McCosker; et al. Journal of Environmental Management 2022. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115932

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Method / resource The NiLRI metric expresses nitrogen discharge risk as fertilizer applied per cane yield.
Method / resource NiLRI values from experiments and commercial crops spanned all seven risk classes.
Association Practices most influential for NiLRI had little direct impact on nitrogen management.
Association Improved fallow management was associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.

Associationauthor interpretationoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Improved fallow management was associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.

Taxon: sugarcanee1
Treatment: improving fallow managemente0
Outcome: water quality riske1
Direction: reducee1

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“They included improving fallow management and reducing tillage and compaction, practices that have been promoted for production rather than N discharge benefits.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1452–1613

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“agronomic practices that could be promoted to reduce water quality risk while maintaining or improving yields of sugarcane crops”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1793–1921

Title

Assessing water quality for cropping management practices: A new approach for dissolved inorganic nitrogen discharged to the Great Barrier Reef

Peter J. Thorburn; Jody S. Biggs; Kevin McCosker; et al. Journal of Environmental Management 2022. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115932

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Method / resource The NiLRI metric expresses nitrogen discharge risk as fertilizer applied per cane yield.
Method / resource NiLRI values from experiments and commercial crops spanned all seven risk classes.
Association Practices most influential for NiLRI had little direct impact on nitrogen management.
Association Reduced tillage and compaction were associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.

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Claim · model-written summary

The evaluation process can serve as an aid for risk analysis in apple orchards, promoting management benefits and reducing cost on farms.

Taxon: appleMalus domesticae0
Outcome: an aid for risk analysise1
Qualifier: promoting management benefits and reducing cost in the farmse1

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“incidence of aerial pests in a commercial apple orchard”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 237–292

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“The process of evaluation described in this study can serve as an aid for risk analysis, promoting management benefits and reducing cost in the farms”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1141–1290

Title

Analysis of pest incidence on apple trees validated by unsupervised machine learning algorithms

Eduardo Antonio Speranza; Célia Regina Grego; Luciano Gebler Revista Engenharia na Agricultura - REVENG 2022. doi:10.13083/reveng.v30i1.12919

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Coating and film treatments maintained calcium benefits while lowering storage weight loss.

Taxon: applesMalus domesticae0
Treatment: the coating and film treatmentse0
Outcome: weight loss of the fruite0
Direction: reducede0
Qualifier: during cold storagee0

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“the coating and film treatments maintained the beneficial effects of calcium on apples and reduced weight loss of the fruit during cold storage.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 677–821

Title

Reducing the Risk of Superficial Injury in `Golden Delicious' Apples Caused by Postharvest Application of CaCl2 Solutions

Robert A. Saftner; William S. Conway; Carl E. Sams HortScience 1997. doi:10.21273/hortsci.32.3.458b

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Intervention effect Calcium chloride treatments delayed senescent breakdown.
Intervention effect Calcium chloride treatments caused superficial fruit injury.
Intervention effect A water rinse with coating or shrink wrap reduced injury after the higher calcium doses.
Intervention effect The rinse and packaging eliminated injury after the lower calcium dose.

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The authors recommend social incentives or nursery controls to lower forest disease risk.

Taxon: British forestse0
Outcome: social incentives or control in the nursery sectore0

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“there seems a strong case for some social incentives or control in the nursery sector, to reduce the probability of new diseases infecting British forests”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1754–1908

Title

Reducing disease risks to British forests: an exploration of costs and benefits of nursery best practices

Gregory Valatin; Colin Price; Sarah Green Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research 2022. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpac003

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Claim · model-written summary

The future growing season shifts to a wetter part of the year, reducing the risk of late-season drought stress in chickpea.

Taxon: chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)Cicer arietinume0
Outcome: risk of late season drought stresse4
Qualifier: a shift in growing season to a wetter part of the yeare4

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“water-limited condition of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 89–145

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“This is the consequence of a shift in growing season to a wetter part of the year and reduced the risk of late season drought stress”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 762–894

Title

Potential Benefits from Adaptation to Climate Change in Chickpea - TI Journals

Amir Hajarpoor; Afshin Soltani; E Zeinali; et al. Agriculture Science Developments 2014

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Intervention effect Chickpea yield is projected to increase by 37-89% under future climate conditions.
Intervention effect Crop earliness and early sowing could further increase chickpea yield by 12-82% under future climate.
Intervention effect Crop earliness and early sowing could increase chickpea water use efficiency by 9-75% under future climate.
Recommendation New chickpea varieties should be released with shorter growth periods than current ones.
Recommendation Sowing dates of chickpea should be advanced whenever possible.

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Authors recommend promoting perennial based pastures for production, feed quality and environmental benefits.

Taxon: perennial-based pasturese0
Outcome: should be promotede0

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“perennial-based pastures should be promoted for the purposes of productivity, in terms of increasing pasture production and improving feed quality, and for the environmental benefits in terms of alleviating the soil acidity problem and reducing the risk of dryland salinity”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1527–1800

Title

Pasture and sheep responses to lime application in a grazing experiment in a high-rainfall area, south-eastern Australia. I. Pasture production

G. D. Li; K. R. Helyar; S. J. Welham; et al. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 2006. doi:10.1071/ar05298

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Intervention effect Limed pastures produced 18% more dry matter overall.
Intervention effect Lime increased perennial pasture dry matter by 610 kg/ha.
Intervention effect Annual pasture dry matter was 420 kg/ha higher with lime without statistical significance.
Intervention effect Perennial pasture growth responded significantly to lime in winter and spring.
Intervention effect Annual pasture growth responded significantly to lime in winter and spring.
Intervention effect Neither pasture type responded to lime in autumn and summer.

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The authors consider carefully managed poppy intercropping promising for reducing total yield-loss risk.

Taxon: poppye0
Outcome: minimizing the risk of total yield lossese0
Qualifier: when precisely managede0

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“intercropping of poppy is a promising strategy for its cultivation, in terms of minimizing the risk of total yield losses when precisely managed”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1390–1534

Title

Poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) Intercropping with Spring Barley and with White Clover: Benefits and Competitive Effects

Katharina Luhmer; Hanna Blum; Thorsten Kraska; et al. Agronomy 2021. doi:10.3390/agronomy11050948

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Observation Poppy yield ranged from 798.7 to 1293.1 kg ha−1.
Intervention effect White clover intercropping had no significant effect on poppy yield versus sole cropping.
Intervention effect White clover intercropping did not significantly change poppy dry matter, height or leaf area index.
Intervention effect White clover intercropping did not significantly change poppy C/N ratio.
Observation Poppy-barley intercrop yields were higher in 2018 and 2020 than 2019.
Observation The poppy-barley intercrop had higher land equivalent ratios in 2018 and 2020 than 2019.
Mechanism Differences in seeding dates, precipitation and nutrients chiefly explained year differences.
Intervention effect Barley seeding density had a small effect on intercrop performance.
Intervention effect Intercropping had a small effect on weed cover, number and biomass.
Recommendation The authors advise seeding poppy before barley to limit competition.
Recommendation The authors conclude poppy and white clover can be sown together.

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Claim · model-written summary

The authors conclude that 1:1 harvesting reduces risk while maintaining yields and benefits.

Taxon: rain-fed landt0
Outcome: water harvesting with a 1:1 crop: catchment ratioe0

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“Within-field water harvesting with a 1:1 crop: catchment ratio thus reduced risk by reducing investments in seed and animal draught power, whilst maintaining yields and net benefits”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1002–1183

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“rain-fed land”
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Title

Catchment basin water harvesting as a means of improving the productivity of rain-fed land in upland Balochistan

D. J. Rees; Z. A. Qureshi; S. Mehmood; et al. The Journal of Agricultural Science 1991. doi:10.1017/s0021859600076188

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Intervention effect Catchment runoff increased water storage by 55% for 1:1 plots.
Intervention effect Catchment runoff increased water storage by 43% for 2:1 plots.
Intervention effect Water harvesting increased yield per cropped area.
Intervention effect Across trials, 1:1 treatment yield was 95% of control yield.
Intervention effect Waterlogging reduced yields in 2:1 plots.
Intervention effect Overall costs fell 18% with 1:1 water harvesting.
Intervention effect Overall costs fell 31% with 2:1 water harvesting.
Intervention effect Net benefits for 1:1 harvesting equalled or exceeded the control.
Intervention effect Net benefits for 2:1 harvesting were 32% lower.

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corn 2

sugarcane 2

apple 1

apples 1

British forests 1

chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) 1

perennial-based pastures 1

poppy 1

rain-fed land 1