Abstract

The objective of this study has been to identify the factors that influence the concurrent adoption of no-till technology and Roundup Ready (RR) soybean technology. Using data from a survey of 610 soybean growers in the United States and a two-equation probit model, our results reveal that ignoring the simultaneous nature of the decision to use no-till and RR soybean technologies could lead to the mis-specification of the model and hence our ability to reveal and understand the factors that influence the concomitant adoption of these technologies will be obscured by the inconsistent estimates that will result.

Key words: Probit, soybean, concomitant, technology, adoption.