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AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY: MASTERS THESIS PRIZE 1980: Mastgers Thesis Prize 1980

AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY: MASTERS THESIS PRIZE 1980: Mastgers Thesis Prize 1980 Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 25, No. 2 (August 1981), pp. 176-177. AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY MASTERS THESIS PRIZE 1980 The prize was awarded to Raymond Boffey for a thesis entitled ‘An In- tegration of Ecological and Economic Criteria for Pest Control: A Dynamic Model Applied to Selected Apple Pests in Western Australia’, submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Western Australia, for the degree of Master of Science in Agriculture. Thesis A bstract Economic thresholds define the goal of pest control procedures: the profit maximising number of pests. The development of economic thresholds is necessary for optimal decision making in pest control. of economic threshold were reviewed and found to Existing definitions be deficient by not distinguishing among pests according to which part of of factors which determine the rela- the crop they attack, in the treatment tion between pest numbers and revenue, and in not permitting biological and chemical inputs to be considered simultaneously when determining optimal procedures. A definition of economic threshold which overcame these deficiencies was developed. The following factors, among others, were identified as influencing economic threshold: (i) the sensitivity of crop yield and quality to the number of pests; (ii) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Australian Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics Wiley

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1364-985X
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10.1111/j.1467-8489.1981.tb00395.x
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Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 25, No. 2 (August 1981), pp. 176-177. AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY MASTERS THESIS PRIZE 1980 The prize was awarded to Raymond Boffey for a thesis entitled ‘An In- tegration of Ecological and Economic Criteria for Pest Control: A Dynamic Model Applied to Selected Apple Pests in Western Australia’, submitted to the Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Western Australia, for the degree of Master of Science in Agriculture. Thesis A bstract Economic thresholds define the goal of pest control procedures: the profit maximising number of pests. The development of economic thresholds is necessary for optimal decision making in pest control. of economic threshold were reviewed and found to Existing definitions be deficient by not distinguishing among pests according to which part of of factors which determine the rela- the crop they attack, in the treatment tion between pest numbers and revenue, and in not permitting biological and chemical inputs to be considered simultaneously when determining optimal procedures. A definition of economic threshold which overcame these deficiencies was developed. The following factors, among others, were identified as influencing economic threshold: (i) the sensitivity of crop yield and quality to the number of pests; (ii)

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Published: Aug 1, 1981

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