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Wallander, Steven; Claassen, Roger; Nickerson, Cynthia J.. |
The recent 9-billion-gallon increase in corn-based ethanol production, which resulted from a combination of rising gasoline prices and a suite of Federal bioenergy policies, provides evidence of how farmers altered their land-use decisions in response to increased demand for corn. As some forecasts had suggested, corn acreage increased mostly on farms that previously specialized in soybeans. Other farms, however, offset this shift by expanding soybean production. Farm-level data reveal that the simultaneous net expansion of corn and soybean acreage resulted from a reduction in cotton acreage, a shift from uncultivated hay to cropland, and the expansion of double cropping (consecutively producing two crops of either like or unlike commodities on the same... |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS); Bioenergy; Ethanol; Indirect effects; Land use; Corn production; Environmental impacts; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117982 |
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Pautsch, Gregory R.; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Kling, Catherine L.. |
Agricultural tillage practices are important human-induced activities that can alter carbon emissions from agricultural soils and have the potential to significantly contribute to reductions in greenhouse gas emission (Lal et al, 1998). This research investigates the expected costs of sequestering carbon in agricultural soils under different subsidy and market-based policies. Using the detailed National Resources Inventory data, we estimate the probability that farmers adopt conservation tillage practices based on a variety of exogenous characteristics and profit from conventional practices. These estimates are used with physical models of carbon sequestration to estimate the subsidy costs of achieving increased carbon sequestration with alternative... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Q38. |
Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18391 |
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