An Expected Value of Sample Information (EVSI) Approach for Estimating the Payoff from a Variable Rate Technology
By: Queiroz, Pedro W. V.; Perrin, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Bullock, David S.
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Queiroz, Pedro W. V.; Perrin, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Bullock, David S., An Expected Value of Sample Information (EVSI) Approach for Estimating the Payoff from a Variable Rate Technology, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 1-13
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This paper examines the expected payoff to variable rate technology for fertilizer application in terms of a Bayesian expectation of the value of sample information (EVSI). The optimal variable rate for each cell in a field is conditioned on a signal in the form of the electrical conductivity of soil at that cell. Using corn response to nitrogen data from ten on-farm field-level experiments, we calculate the expected payoff from variable rate technology versus a uniform rate applied to all cells to be about $1.81/acre.