Consulta: creatorFacets:"Claassen,   Roger"
Registros recuperados: 31
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Agricultural Land Tenure and Carbon Offsets
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Morehart,   Mitchell J.
Agricultural Land Tenure and Carbon Offsets examines the potential role that land ownership might play in determining the agricultural sector’s involvement in carbon sequestration programs. By estimating the carbon sequestration potential of agricultural producers who own most of the land they operate, this report finds that land ownership should not be a constraining factor in agriculture’s ability to provide carbon offsets.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Keywords: Climate change; Carbon sequestration; Carbon offsets; Cap and trade programs; Farmland ownership; Tenure; Farming practices; Conservation practices; Conservation Reserve Program; Crops; Livestock; Environmental services; ERS; USDA; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58994

Extent, Location, and Characteristics of Land Cropped Due to Insurance Subsidies
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Lubowski,   Ruben N.; Roberts,   Michael J.
We examine changes in land use caused by the large increase in crop insurance premium subsidies under the 1994 Federal Crop Insurance and Reform Act (FCIRA).  We use a conditional logit model to estimate changes in six major land uses from 1992 and 1997 as a function of the change in expected return to crop insurance.  Our data on individual land parcels across the entire coterminous United States enable identification of the extent, location, and physical characteristics of the land brought into and retained in production as a result of the crop insurance policies.  Results indicate the additional crop insurance premium subsidies increased cultivated cropland area on the order of 1.9 million acres (0.6%), consistent with the lower range of previous...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19546

THE ECONOMICS OF GREEN PAYMENTS FOR REDUCING AGRICULTURAL  NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION IN THE CORN BELT
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Zhang,   Wei; Horan,   Richard D.; Claassen,   Roger.
We develop a watershed-based model of green payments to examine how payments applied to different environmental performance measures compare on the basis of economic efficiency, equity, and environmental outcomes.  We also explore how targeting in the specification of water quality goals (e.g., TMDLs) affects program performance.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21939

Crop Insurance, Disaster Payments, and Incentives for Land Use Change in Agriculture:  A Preliminary Assessment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Carriazo,   Fernando; Claassen,   Roger; Cooper,   Joseph C.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Crop Insurance; Disaster Payments; Supplemental Revenue Assistance; Corn; Wheat; Agricultural and Food Policy; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Risk and Uncertainty.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49218

Conservation-Compatible Practices and Programs: Who Participates?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lambert,   Dayton M.; Sullivan,   Patrick; Claassen,   Roger; Foreman,   Linda F.
In recent years, the Federal Government has increased its emphasis on conservation programs that reward good stewardship on working farmland. This report examines the business, operator, and household characteristics of farms that have adopted certain conservation-compatible practices, with and without financial assistance from government conservation programs. The analysis finds that characteristics of the farm operator and household, in addition to the characteristics of the farm business, are associated with both the likelihood that a farmer will adopt certain conservation-compatible practices and the degree to which the farmer participates in different types of conservation programs. For example, operators of small farm operations and operators not...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Conservation programs; Conservation-compatible management practices; Conservation structures; Farm households; Conservation Reserve Program; Environmental Quality Incentives Program; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7255

THE WELFARE SENSITIVITY OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL INSTRUMENTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Horan,   Richard D.; Claassen,   Roger; Howe,   Lance.
Most economic studies of pollution control analyze policies that are optimal for a given set of underlying parameters.  Less understood is how such policies perform when the underlying parameters change and policies are not adjusted in response, or what the benefits of adjustment are.  We construct several measures of welfare sensitivity and use them to analyze the welfare impacts arising in a simulation of second-best, agri-environmental policies.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31041

Do Farm Programs Encourage Native Grassland Losses?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Carriazo,   Fernando; Cooper,   Joseph C.; Hellerstein,   Daniel.
Federal programs may encourage farmers to convert native grasslands—land that has never been cultivated — to production of corn, soybeans, and other crops, leading to potential losses of Northern Plains' native grasslands. Federally subsidized crop insurance reduces risk associated with crops grown on converted grasslands and, over time, increases average returns to production by making crop farming more attractive. Other programs, including Federal disaster assistance and marketing loan benefits, also reduce risk and increase returns to crop production on converted grasslands. While these programs can be important risk management tools for farmers, they may also result in unintended, environmentally damaging actions.
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121013

Indicators
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kaufman,   Phillip R.; Claassen,   Roger.
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121025

Amenity Value of Urban Forest Landscapes Attributed to Houses within a 10-Minute Driving Distance
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kim,   Seung Gyu; Cho,   Seong-Hoon; Roberts,   Roland K.; Claassen,   Roger.
The main objective of this research is to propose a data-driven approach to estimate the amenity values of restoring urban forest landscapes at potential target sites. The approach allows establishing the overall price-driving time relationship between the amenity values attributable to both deforested and forested areas and their proximities to housing locations within a given community. Establishing the overall price-driving time relationship is important because the hedonic price model cannot be used to estimate the amenity values of yet to be restored urban forest landscapes that do not exist at the time of housing sales transactions. We estimated the sum of the differences between amenity values of deforested and forested areas on housing prices...
Tipo: Working Paper
Palavras-chave: Urban forest landscapes; Spatial hedonic model; Travel distance; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123552

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND-USE CHANGE: THE ROLE OF ECONOMICS AND POLICY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lubowski,   Ruben N.; Bucholtz,   Shawn; Claassen,   Roger; Roberts,   Michael J.; Cooper,   Joseph C.; Gueorguieva,   Anna; Johansson,   Robert C.
This report examines evidence on the relationship between agricultural land-use changes, soil productivity, and indicators of environmental sensitivity. If cropland that shifts in and out of production is less productive and more environmentally sensitive than other cropland, policy-induced changes in land use could have production effects that are smaller-and environmental impacts that are greater-than anticipated. To illustrate this possibility, this report examines environmental outcomes stemming from landuse conversion caused by two agricultural programs that others have identified as potentially having important influences on land use and environmental quality: Federal crop insurance subsidies and the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), the Nation's...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Conservation Reserve Program (CRP); Crop insurance; Erosion; Extensive margin; Farm policy; Imperiled species; Land use; Land-use change; Land quality; Nutrient loss; Soil productivity; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33591

Grassland to Cropland Conversion in the Northern Plains: The Role of Markets and Policy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Carriazo,   Fernando; Claassen,   Roger; Cooper,   Joseph C.; Hellerstein,   Daniel; Ueda,   Kohei.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61625

ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE IN U.S. AGRICULTURAL POLICY:  PAST PERFORMANCE AND FUTURE POTENTIAL
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Breneman,   Vincent E.; Bucholtz,   Shawn; Cattaneo,   Andrea; Johansson,   Robert C.; Morehart,   Mitchell J.
Since 1985, U.S. agricultural producers have been required to practice soil conservation on highly erodible cropland and conserve wetlands as a condition of farm program eligibility. This report discusses the general characteristics of compliance incentives, evaluates their effectiveness in reducing erosion in the program's current form, and explores the potential for expanding the compliance approach to address nutrient runoff from crop production. While soil erosion has, in fact, been reduced on land subject to Conservation Compliance, erosion is also down on land not subject to Conservation Compliance, indicating the influence of other factors. Analysis to isolate the influence of Conservation Compliance incentives from other factors suggests that about...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Conservation compliance; Sodbuster; Swampbuster; Conservation policy; Agri-environmental policy; Nutrient management; Buffer practices; Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34033

The Future of Environmental Compliance Incentives in U.S. Agriculture:  The Role of Commodity, Conservation, and Crop Insurance Programs
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger.
In recent years, direct payments—a type of farm commodity program payment—have made up a large share of Federal agriculture assistance that could be withheld from farmers who fail to comply with highly erodible land conservation (conservation compliance and sodbuster) or wetland conservation (swampbuster) provisions, known collectively as environmental compliance requirements. If direct payments are sharply reduced or eliminated to help reduce the Federal budget defi cit, compliance incentives would be reduced on many farms, potentially increasing environmental quality problems. Some farmers will still be subject to compliance through existing Federal agricultural programs(e.g., conservation or disaster programs) or programs that may succeed direct...
Tipo: Technical Report
Palavras-chave: Direct payment; Crop insurance; Conservation compliance; Sodbuster; Swampbuster; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121803

Conservation Reserve Program Acreage To Decline; Will Benefits Also Fall?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Hellerstein,   Daniel.
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122820

Working Farm Participation and Acreage Enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lambert,   Dayton M.; Sullivan,   Patrick; Claassen,   Roger.
Among Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) participants, there is a distinction between farm households using the program to ease out of farming and those using the program to augment production receipts. We find evidence that factors other than crop or livestock revenue and environmental factors are associated with program participation and acreage enrollment among farmers who continue agricultural production. Program payments and farm size are positively associated with the amount of land enrolled in the CRP, and characteristics of participants in land retirement and working-lands CRP components are similar.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Acreage enrollment; Conservation Reserve Program; Land retirement; Program participation; Working farms; Working-land conservation; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use; Q24; Q28.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6620

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE CHOICE: A DISCRETE CHOICE APPROACH
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Tegene,   Abebayehu.
A discrete choice model and site-specific data are used to analyze land use choices between crop production and pasture in the Corn Belt.  The results show that conversion probabilities depend on relative returns, land quality, and government policy.  In general it is found that landowners are less inclined to remove land from crop production than to convert land to crop production.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31490

Rewarding Farm Practices versus Environmental Performance
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Weinberg,   Marca; Claassen,   Roger.
A multitude of design decisions influence the performance of voluntary conservation programs. This Economic Brief is one of a set of five exploring the implications of decisions policymakers and program managers must make about who is eligible to receive payments, how much can be received, for what action, and the means by which applicants are selected. The particular issue examined here is whether to pay for conservation practices or to link payments to environmental performance.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34087

Greening Income Support and Supporting Green
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Morehart,   Mitchell J.
A multitude of design decisions influence the performance of voluntary conservation programs. This Economic Brief is one of a set of five exploring the implications of decisions policymakers and program managers must make about who is eligible to receive payments, how much can be received, for what action, and the means by which applicants are selected. In particular, this Brief focuses on potential tradeoffs in combining income support and environmental objectives in a single program.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34097

2008 Farm Act: Where Will the Money Go?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Young,   C. Edwin; Oliveira,   Victor; Claassen,   Roger.
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122869

AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION POLICY AT A CROSSROADS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Heimlich,   Ralph E.; Claassen,   Roger.
U.S. agricultural conservation policy has focused on a range of potential policy instruments centered on voluntary approaches tied into Depression-era commodity programs.  Entering the twenty-first century, conservation policy is at a crossroads between more coercive regulatory policies, more costly voluntary programs, and more facilitative market-oriented policies.  What are the pitfalls, advantages, disadvantages, and tradeoffs along these paths?
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31511

Wetlands and Agriculture: Private Interests and Public Benefits
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Heimlich,   Ralph E.; Wiebe,   Keith D.; Claassen,   Roger; Gadsby,   Dwight M.; House,   Robert M.
Society has recently increased the value it places on the services that wetlands provide, including water quality improvements, flood control, wildlife habitat, and recreation. However, owners of wetlands are often unable to profit from these services because the benefits created are freely enjoyed by many. This report examines differences between public and private incentives regarding wetlands. Federal wetland policy has shifted in recent decades--from encouraging wetland conversion to encouraging wetland protection and restoration--in an effort to balance public and private objectives. The report assesses the need for continued wetlands protection policies as the United States approaches achieving the goal of no net loss of wetlands.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Wetlands; "no net loss"; Swampbuster; Conservation; Restoration; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34043

Crop Insurance, Disaster Payments and Land Use Change: The Effect of Sodsaver on Incentives for Grassland Conversion
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Cooper,   Joseph C.; Carriazo,   Fernando.
Subsidized crop insurance may encourage conversion of native grassland to cropland. The Sodsaver provision of the 2008 farm bill could deny crop insurance on converted land in the Prairie Pothole states for 5 years. Supplemental Revenue Assistance payments, which are linked to crop insurance purchases, could also be withheld. Using representative farms, we estimate that Sodsaver would reduce expected crop revenue by up to 8% and expected net return by up to 20%, while increasing the standard deviation of revenue by as much as 6% of market revenue. Analysis based on elasticities from the literature suggests that Sodsaver would reduce grassland conversion by 9% or less.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Bootstrap; Crop insurance; Grassland; Joint densities; Sodsaver; Supplemental Revenue Assistance; Agricultural and Food Policy; Production Economics; Risk and Uncertainty; Q2.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104623

EFFECTS OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL PAYMENT POLICIES ON AGRICULTURAL TRADE
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cooper,   Joseph C.; Peters,   Mark; Claassen,   Roger.
In many OECD countries, including the U.S., interest in developing agri-environmental payment programs is currently strong. In the future, the inclusion of an agri-environmental payment program into the WTO's "green box" could be more easily challenged by WTO member countries on the basis that it has more than "minimal" trade-distorting impacts on production. The goal of this paper is to conduct an ex ante analysis of the trade impacts of stylized examples of agri-environmental payment programs that have been proposed for implementation in the near future. To simulate the production and trade impacts of these programs, we use a partial equilibrium model of the U.S. agricultural sector in a sensitivity analysis across a range of design options for...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22240

INSTRUMENT CHOICE AND BUDGET-CONSTRAINED TARGETING
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Horan,   Richard D.; Claassen,   Roger; Agapoff,   Jean; Zhang,   Wei.
We analyze how choosing to use a particular type of instrument for agri-environmental payments, when these payments are constrained by the regulatory authority's budget, implies an underlying targeting criterion with respect to costs, benefits, participation, and income, and the tradeoffs among these targeting criteria.  The results provide insight into current policy debates.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20387

NEW CONSERVATION INITIATIVES IN THE 2002 FARM BILL
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Johansson,   Robert C.; Claassen,   Roger; Peters,   Mark.
The role of agri-environmental programs has taken on increased importance in the current Farm Bill debate with an eighty percent increase in Title II funding.  However, little empirical evidence exists on the tradeoffs between economic costs and environmental benefits of new agri-environmental programs to assist policymakers in their designs.  This paper illustrates some of the budgetary and environmental issues inherent in these initiatives.  Several policy options are explored using an environmental simulation model and an economic spatial-equilibrium model for U.S. agriculture.  Results indicate abatement levels of nitrogen and pesticides are higher under performance-based policies and those for wind erosion and soil productivity are higher under...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19760

Integrating Commodity and Conservation Programs: Design Options and Outcomes
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Aillery,   Marcel P.; Nickerson,   Cynthia J.
Can a single program support farm income and encourage producers to adopt environmentally sound farming practices? While simple in concept, attempting to roll the farm income support features of existing commodity programs and conservation payments into a single program raises questions. Exactly how would farm commodity and conservation payments be combined? What difference would it make for environmental gain and farm income support? This report approaches the questions in two ways. First, spending patterns in existing commodity and conservation programs are analyzed to determine the extent to which producers who are currently receiving commodity payments also receive conservation payments. Then, a number of hypothetical program scenarios are devised and...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Conservation; Commodity programs; Income support; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6703

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK AND AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY DESIGN
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Horan,   Richard D.; Claassen,   Roger; Cooper,   Joseph C.
Agricultural nonpoint pollution is inherently stochastic (e.g., due to weather).  In theory, this randomness has implications for the choice and design of policy instruments.  However, very few empirical studies have modeled natural variability.  This paper investigates the importance of stochastic processes for the choice and design of alternative nonpoint instruments. The findings suggest that not explicitly considering the stochastic processes in the analysis can produce significantly biased results.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21827

Agri-Environmental Policy at the Crossroads: Guideposts on a Changing Landscape
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Claassen,   Roger; Hansen,   LeRoy T.; Peters,   Mark; Breneman,   Vincent E.; Weinberg,   Marca; Cattaneo,   Andrea; Feather,   Peter; Gadsby,   Dwight M.; Hellerstein,   Daniel; Hopkins,   Jeffrey W.; Johnston,   Paul V.; Morehart,   Mitchell J.; Smith,   Mark.
Agri-environmental policy is at a crossroads. Over the past 20 years, a wide range of policies addressing the environmental implications of agricultural production have been implemented at the Federal level. Those policies have played an important role in reducing soil erosion, protecting and restoring wetlands, and creating wildlife habitat. However, emerging agri-environmental issues, evolution of farm income support policies, and limits imposed by trade agreements may point toward a rethinking of agri-environmental policy. This report identifies the types of policy tools available and the design features that have improved the effectiveness of current programs. It provides an indepth analysis of one policy tool that may be an important component of a...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Conservation programs; Environmental policy; Agricultural policy; Policy instruments; Agricultural program design; Soil erosion; Nitrogen runoff; Environmental Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33983

Flexible Conservation Measures on Working Land: What Challenges Lie Ahead?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Cattaneo,   Andrea; Claassen,   Roger; Johansson,   Robert C.; Weinberg,   Marca.
From 1985 to 2002, most Federal conservation dollars going to farm operators have been to retire land from crop production. Yet most U.S. farmland (850 million acres) remains in active production. The Farm Security and Rural Investment (FSRI) Act of 2002 sharply increased conservation funding and earmarked most of the increase for working-land payment programs (WLPPs). The design and implementation of WLPPs will largely determine the extent to which environmental goals are achieved and whether they are cost effective. We simulate potential environmental gains as well as adjustments in agricultural production, price, and income associated with various WLPP features to illustrate tradeoffs arising from WLPP design and implementation. Competitive bidding with...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7248

Where Did the Corn Come From To Fuel the Expansion in Ethanol Production?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Wallander,   Steven; Claassen,   Roger; Nickerson,   Cynthia J.
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121024

The Ethanol Decade:  An Expansion of U.S. Corn Production, 2000-09
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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