ACTIVITY 3: Partial Budget (and Other Economic) Analyses
- Assemble field data for analysis
- NY (2 sites), ME, MI, WI, WA
- Pest Pressure: CPB population densities by life stage and date
- Crop Damage: %Defoliation by date
- Yield (marketable, culls)
- Goal
- Estimate linkage between Pest Pressure, Crop Damage and Yield Loss
- Estimate how controls (treatments) and conditions impact this linkage
- Economic Analysis: initially partial budgets (cost-benefit), then to risk-based
- Next Steps: Recruit graduate student to start Sep 2025