Data for: Spillover effects of organic agriculture on pesticide use on nearby fields

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Data for: Spillover effects of organic agriculture on pesticide use on nearby fields Larsen, Ashley; Noack, Frederik; Powers, Claire

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The environmental impacts of organic agriculture are only partially understood and whether such practices have spillover effects on pests or pest control activity on nearby fields remains unknown. Using roughly 13,000 field observations per year from 2013-2019 in Kern County, CA , we estimate that organic crop producers benefit from surrounding organic fields, decreasing overall pesticide use and pesticides targeting insect pests. Conventional fields, in contrast, tend to increase pesticide use as the area of surrounding organic production increases.

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Title	Data for: Spillover effects of organic agriculture on pesticide use on nearby fields
Creator	Larsen, Ashley; Noack, Frederik; Powers, Claire
Date Issued	2024-03-14
Description	Abstract The environmental impacts of organic agriculture are only partially understood and whether such practices have spillover effects on pests or pest control activity on nearby fields remains unknown. Using roughly 13,000 field observations per year from 2013-2019 in Kern County, CA , we estimate that organic crop producers benefit from surrounding organic fields, decreasing overall pesticide use and pesticides targeting insect pests. Conventional fields, in contrast, tend to increase pesticide use as the area of surrounding organic production increases. ; Methods Please see accompanying manuscript for details on data creation.
Subject	Other; Organic farming; Pesticides; Panel Data
Type	Dataset
Notes	Dryad version number: 7 Version status: submitted Dryad curation status: Published Sharing link: http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.vhhmgqp1f</p> Storage size: 2337188734 Visibility: public
Date Available	2024-03-13
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC0 1.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0440679
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/UUBGVK
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/UUBGVK; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vhhmgqp1f
Grant Funding Agency	National Science Foundation; United States Department of Agriculture
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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