Title
Impacts of Southern oak seedling survival on investment returns in Mississippi
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2003
Publication Title
Journal of Sustainable Forestry
Abstract
Increasingly, landowners are establishing hardwood plantations to satisfy their land management goals. Unfortunately, little is known about how competition control affects initial seedling survival and subsequent investment returns for hardwood plantations. This study examines five alternative competition control regimes for southern oak establishment. The regimes include no site preparation, disking only, sub-soiling with rotary mowing, herbicides only, and herbicides with rotary mowing and sub-soiling. The analysis includes both before- and after-tax estimates of land expectation value (LEV) for comparing alternatives. Our results suggest that greater returns can be achieved for southern oak plantations in Mississippi during both good and bad rainfall years using herbicides only or herbicides with rotary mowing and subsoiling for competition control. Applying intensive competition control
Volume
17
Issue
3
First Page
1
Repository Citation
Grebner, Donald L.; Ezell, Andrew W.; Gaddis, Deborah A.; and Bullard, Steven H., "Impacts of Southern oak seedling survival on investment returns in Mississippi" (2003). Faculty Publications. 169.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/forestry/169
Last Page
19
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1300/J091v17n03_01
ISSN
1054-9811
Comments
Grebner, D.L., A.W. Ezell, D. Gaddis, and S.H. Bullard. 2003. Impacts of Southern oak seedling survival on investment returns in Mississippi. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 17(3):1 -19.