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| Kaplan, Jonathan D.; Johansson, Robert C.. |
| Confined animal production in the U.S. and its associated discharge of manure nutrients into area waters is considered a leading contributor to current water quality impairments. A common option to mitigate these impairments is to limit land application of manure. This paper evaluates the implications of alternative land application constraints for U.S. agriculture and the environment at the regional and sector level. The results suggest that when these constraints are particularly binding, due to minimal acceptance of manure as a substitute for commercial fertilizer, potentially large and unanticipated changes in returns to agricultural production and water quality may occur. Furthermore, we find that some of the cost of meeting the land application... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22002 |
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| Hansen, Kristiana; Kaplan, Jonathan D.; Kroll, Stephan. |
| Risk and reliability dominate water supply discussions in the arid western United States in light of increasing demand and finite, weather-dependant supply. Thus water agencies increasingly turn to contractual mechanisms such as dry-year options to manage supply risk in advance of need. Although a few water agencies across the West have implemented dry-year options, sufficient data for conventional econometric analysis do not yet exist. We thus utilize experimental economics to analyze the effect of annual dry-year options on water markets. We consider how market structure (competitive versus monopsony power) and option contract availability affect water price and allocation within a market and find that realized gains from trade are on average higher when... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; D23; L22; Q25. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108722 |
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| Giannakas, Konstantinos; Kaplan, Jonathan D.. |
| This paper introduces enforcement costs and farmer noncompliance into the economic analysis of the USDA conservation program on highly erodible lands. A model of heterogeneous producers is developed to determine the economic causes of farmer noncompliance with the provisions of the conservation program. In addition, the paper determines the enforcement policy design that can induce conservation compliance and examines the effectiveness of the current enforcement policy in deterring producer noncompliance. The implications of the theoretical model are tested empirically with data provided by USDA. The analysis shows that farmer compliance with the provisions of the conservation program is not necessarily the natural outcome of self-interest and complete... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20473 |
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| Kaplan, Jonathan D.; Johansson, Robert C.. |
| Agri-environmental programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, provide payments to livestock and crop producers to generate broadly defined environmental benefits and to help them comply with federal water quality regulations, such as those that require manure nutrients generated on large animal feeding operations to be spread on cropland at no greater than agronomic rates. We couch these policy options in terms of agri-environmental "carrots" and regulatory "sticks," respectively. The U.S. agricultural sector is likely to respond to these policies in a variety of ways. Simulation analysis suggests that meeting nutrient standards would result in decreased levels of animal production, increased prices for livestock and poultry products,... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31369 |
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| Ribaudo, Marc; Kaplan, Jonathan D.; Christensen, Lee A.; Gollehon, Noel R.; Johansson, Robert C.; Breneman, Vincent E.; Aillery, Marcel P.; Agapoff, Jean; Peters, Mark. |
| Nutrients from livestock and poultry manure are key sources of water pollution. Ever-growing numbers of animals per farm and per acre have increased the risk of water pollution. New Clean Water Act regulations compel the largest confined animal producers to meet nutrient application standards when applying manure to the land, and USDA encourages all animal feeding operations to do the same. The additional costs for managing manure (such as hauling manure off the farm) have implications for feedgrain producers and consumers as well. This report's farm-level analysis examines on-farm technical choice and producer costs across major U.S. production areas for hauling manure to the minimum amount of land needed to assimilate manure nutrients. A regional... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Manure management costs; Price and quantity adjustments; Water quality; Animal waste; Manure nutrients; Excess nutrients; Confined animals; CAFO; Manure nitrogen; Manure phosphorus; Manure use; Assimilative capacity; Nutrient management plan; Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33911 |
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| Kaplan, Jonathan D.. |
| Nutrients are a major source of water quality impairment. This paper compares efficient use of nutrients in a wholly owned animal-crop production system versus an integrator-operator animal-crop production system and highlights the operator's tradeoff between prevention and utilization of excreted nutrients under conditions of uncertainty. Results derived from the comparison of different production systems are used to infer the consequences of implementation of nutrient land application restrictions, a key element in the recently drafted United States Department of Agriculture and United States Environmental Protection Agency Unified Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20533 |
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| Hansen, Kristiana; Kaplan, Jonathan D.; Kroll, Stephan; Howitt, Richard E.. |
| Risk and reliability dominate water supply discussions in the arid western United States. In the past, water managers built additional storage to mitigate supply risk. The optimal, least expensive storage sites have now been taken, and there are strong, environmental objections to new facilities. Reliability of existing supplies is further diminished due to concerns about endangered species and global climate change. Thus water agencies increasingly turn to contractual mechanisms such as dry-year options to manage supply risk in advance of need. However, although a few water agencies across the West have implemented dry-year options, sufficient data for conventional econometric analysis do not yet exist. We thus utilize experimental economics to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10002 |
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