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Utilization Of The Line-Intercept Method To Estimate The Coverage, Density, And Average Length Of Row Skips In Cotton And Other Row Crops, Jeffrey L. Willers, Sreenivasa R. Yatham, Michael R. Williams, Dennis C. Akins

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

In row crops, a skip is a length of row within the drill where the crop has failed to establish. If the number of skips and their mean length per acre becomes too high, then considerable losses in crop yield occur. Frequently, farmers are faced with the decision to replant a crop which has row skips. To make the best decision, reliable estimates of the stand loss due to skips must be available. In making this decision, three parameters are useful: the percent of the area per acre that is skipped, the number of individual skips (that is, density) per …