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Vol.3, No.3, 331-338 (2012) Agricultural Sciences /10.4236/as.2012.33037 Sources of inaccuracy when estimating economically optimum N fertilizer rates Martin Bachmaier Technische Universität München, Center of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany; bachmai@wzw-tum.de Received 5 January 2012; revised 16 February 2012; accepted 12 March 2012 ABSTRACT economically optimum N application. The economic optimum is reached when the marginal Nitrogen rate trials are often performed to de- cost of the N fertilization corresponds to the marginal termine the economically optimum N application revenue, i.e. when the returns above the N fertilizer cost rate. For this purpose, the yield is modeled as a (RANC) are maximized. For a given product price p (in function of the N application. The regression €·Mg–1) and a N fertilizer price r (in €·kg–1), these re- analysis provides an estimate of the modeled turns are computed as function and thus also an estimate of the eco- RANC Y p N r (1) nomic optimum, Nopt. Obtaining the accuracy of such estimates by confidence intervals for Nopt where Y is the measured yield in Mg·ha–1 and N is the N is subject to the model assumptions. The de- rate in kg·ha–1 . The N rate where these returns above the pendence of these assumptions is a further N fertilizer cost are maximized, is the economi