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| Smith, Vincent H.; Goodwin, Barry K.. |
| Recent research has questioned the extent to which government policies, including conservation and risk management programs, have influenced environmental indicators. The impacts of income-supporting and risk management programs on soil erosion are considered. An econometric model of the determinants of soil erosion, program participation, conservation effort, and input usage is estimated. While the Conservation Reserve Program has reduced erosion an average of 1.02 tons per acre from 1982 to 1992, approximately half of this reduction has been offset by increased erosion resulting from government programs other than federally subsidized crop insurance. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Conservation Reserve Program; Farm policy; Soil erosion; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31090 |
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| Bangsund, Dean A.; Leistritz, F. Larry; Hodur, Nancy M.. |
| The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), enacted in 1985, provides conservation benefits and agricultural supply control through voluntary, long-term retirement of crop land. Large-scale, long-term land retirement programs produce, in varying degrees, negative effects on those businesses and economic sectors that provide agricultural inputs and services. While the effects of the CRP on agriculture are well understood, economic assessments of the market-value of conservation benefits from the program accruing to rural economies remains largely undocumented. One of the conservation benefits of the program is wildlife habitat, which has bolstered upland bird, waterfowl, and big game populations. Growing wildlife populations have contributed to increased... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Conservation Reserve Program; Economic Impacts; Rural Economies; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23603 |
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| Hendrix, Shannon; Wheelock, Gerald; Onianwa, Okwudili O.. |
| This study examines the factors that affect conservation practice choices of CRP farmers in Alabama. From over 9,000 contracts enrolled in the state between 1986 and 1995, 594 were randomly selected for the study. A multiple-regression analysis was employed to analyze the data. Results indicate that education, ratio of cropland in CRP, farm size, gender, prior crop practice, and geographic location of contract had a significant influence on the choice of conservation practice adopted. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Conservation practices; Conservation Reserve Program; CRP contracts; Cost share; Erodible cropland; Grass practice; Land retirement; Tree practice; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14730 |
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| Torre Ugarte, Daniel de la; Walsh, Marie E.; Shapouri, Hosein; Slinsky, Stephen P.. |
| In response to energy security concerns, alternative energy programs such as biomass energy systems are being developed to provide energy in the 21st century. For the biomass industry to expand, a variety of feedstocks will need to be utilized. Large scale production of bioenergy crops could have significant impacts on the United States agricultural sector in terms of quantities, prices and production location of traditional crops as well as farm income. Though a number of scenarios were examined to study the impact of bioenergy crop production on the agricultural sector, two cropland scenarios are presented in this report. Under the wildlife management scenario, the analysis indicates that, at $30/dry ton (dt) for switchgrass,... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Alternative crops; Bioenergy crops; Biomass; Conservation Reserve Program; Crop acreage shifts; Crop budgeting; Economic feasibility; Economic impact; Hybrid poplars; Hybrid willow; POLYSYS; Switchgrass; Crop Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33997 |
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| 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 |
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| Feng, Hongli; Kling, Catherine L.; Gassman, Philip W.. |
| Land use changes to sequester carbon also provide "co-benefits," some of which (for example, water quality) have attracted at least as much attention as carbon storage. The non-separability of these co-benefits presents a challenge for policy design. If carbon markets are employed, then social efficiency will depend on how we take into account co-benefits, that is, externalities, in such markets. If carbon sequestration is incorporated into conservation programs, then the weight given to carbon sequestration relative to its co-benefits will partly shape these programs. Using the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) as an example, we show that CRP has been sequestering carbon, which was not an intended objective of the program. We also demonstrate that more... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Carbon sequestration; Co-benefits; Conservation Reserve Program; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18336 |
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