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Valuing Disease Prevention in a Vegetatively Propagated Annual Crop: Benefits From the Montana Seed Potato
Kate Binzen Fuller1, Christopher McIntosh2, Nina Zidack3
1Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics and Montana State University Extension, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717.
Abstract:
We examine the economic costs of potato virus Y (PVY) and benefits to commercial potato growers from using screened seed. To do so, we use a quantile regression model to explore disease spread. We use this model to predict disease prevalence and corresponding losses in commercial potato operations with and without a screening and certification program in place. Our analysis suggests that this screening is very important; the amount of PVY in seed in the summer test is the strongest predictor of PVY in the winter test of the variables in our model. The amount of PVY in the seed can have major effects on commercial potato grower revenues and profitability. Using data and models from Idaho, a major purchaser of Montana seed, we estimate the annual benefit from Montana's program to Idaho to average $205 per acre or $22 million for the state.[Formula: see text] Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
