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1995
Peng, Yanning, Veeman, Terry S., Fantino, Alberto A.
This report comprises a number of related components focussed on the role of capital and capital formation in production, productivity and competitiveness in Canadian agriculture, concentrating on the Prairie region of Western Canada in the period 1970 to the early 1990s. The report included the...
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The Economics of Agricultural Chemical Use in Prairie Agriculture: Productivity and Environmental Impacts
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Fantino, Alberto A., Veeman, Terry S.
The use of agricultural chemicals, particularly in crop production, has increased greatly in the prairie region of Western Canada. Pesticide use, chiefly the use of herbicides, increased 7.6 percent per year from 1948 to 1991, slowing down only after 1985 with depressed conditions in the grain...