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Throughout the world a very large amount of money is devoted to plant variety evaluation. One of the larger US maize breeding companies sows 700 000 small plots spread across 200 locations annually. If we assume a plot has a variable cost of US$10, this represents an operating cost of US$7 million annually. In the UK, national crop advisory agencies sow more than 20 000 large plots every year, a plot having a variable cost of approximately US$50, making a total annual testing bill of some US$1 million.
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Talbot, M. (1997). Resource allocation for selection systems. In: Kempton, R.A., Fox, P.N., Cerezo, M. (eds) Statistical Methods for Plant Variety Evaluation. Plant Breeding Series 3 Statistical Methods for Plant Variety Evaluation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1503-9_10
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