Assessing the Economic Impact of Inversion Tillage, Cover Crops, and Herbicide Regimes in Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) Infested Cotton

Table 3

Production costs (US ha⁻¹) for cotton production by year.

Production item	Production cost
	US ha^−1
	2009	2010	2011
Production costs differing by treatment
Tillage
NIT	15.39	15.39	15.39
IT	78.57	15.39	15.39
Cover crop
Clover	187.63	187.63	375.27
Rye	177.75	177.75	237.82
Fallow	64.85	64.85	109.25
Herbicide regime
PRE	40.62	40.62	40.62
POST	64.49	64.49	112.05
PRE+POST	105.11	105.11	152.67
Production costs based on yield
Ginning and warehousing (US kg^−1)	0.045
Classing and promotion fee (US kg^−1)	0.003

Inversion tillage (IT) was performed in 2009 only. In 2010 and 2011 the cost for tillage for all treatments was the cost of noninversion tillage (NIT).
Clover is crimson clover; rye is cereal rye; fallow is winter fallow. In 2011, clover was replanted and rye was only fertilized in 2011. Fallow received an additional application of glyphosate and glufosinate as a winter burndown.
POST and PRE+POST received an additional POST application of glufosinate in 2011.