The economic impact of weeds in Australian agriculture

Title
The economic impact of weeds in Australian agriculture
Publication Date
2004
Author(s)
Sinden, Jack Alfred
Jones, R
Hester, Susan
Odom, Doreen
Kalisch, Cheryl
James, R
Cacho, Oscar Jose
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1542-4442
Email: ocacho@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ocacho
Editor
Editor(s): BM Sindel and SB Johnson
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Weed Society of New South Wales
Place of publication
Wahroonga, Australia
UNE publication id
une:11746
Abstract
Weeds have a wide variety of impacts on society, the environment and the economy. Some of the economic impacts are benefits but most are costs. Combellack (1987) valued the economic cost of weeds in 1981-82 to be $2096m. New methods of weed control and new techniques of farm management have since been developed, and new weeds have invaded. Therefore, the current cost of weed impacts cannot be readily compared to those of 1981-82. This paper attempts to estimate the economic costs of weeds in agriculture across Australia. But further, it offers an economic framework to help consider the problems that weeds create, and the generation and use of information to resolve those problems. A stochastic simulation model was developed to estimate the economic impact of weeds and to particularly account for variability in the cost estimates. The total annual economic loss to Australian agriculture ranged from $3400m to $4400m, with a mean loss of $3900m.
Link
Citation
14th Australian Weeds Conference Papers and Proceedings: Weed Management - Balancing People, Planet, Profit, p. 588-591
ISBN
0975248804
0975248812
Start page
588
End page
591

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