1. An Economic-Theory-Based Approach to Management Zone Delineation

In both the academic and popular literatures on precision agriculture technology, a management zoneis generally defined as an area in a field within which the optimal input application strategy is spatially uniform.  The characteristics commonly chosen to delineate management zones, both in the literature and in commercial practice, are yield and variables associated with yield.  But microeconomic theory makes clear that economically optimal input application strategies... B. Edge