Search Results - subject:"Conservation practices"

GOVERNMENT POLICY, WIND EROSION, AND ECONOMIC VIABILITY IN SEMI-ARID AGRICULTURE: THE CASE OF THE SOUTHERN TEXAS HIGH PLAINS

Bunn, Julie A. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 30 (1998) 02

The 1996 farm bill challenges agricultural producers to pursue conservation objectives while allowing flexibility and reducing subsidies. The nature of this challenge for semi-arid rainfed, wind-erosion-prone agriculture is explored via a behavioral model. Simulations of farm-firm decision...

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Assessing the Costs and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Land Use Changes: A Site-Specific, Policy-Scale Modeling Approach

Wu, JunJie; Adams, Richard M.; Kling, Catherine L.; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2003

policy-scale model is applied to the case of green payments for the adoption of conservation practices (conservation tillage … for conservation tillage and crop rotations increase the use of these conservation practices. However, the acreage …

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A Computerized System for Estimating and Displaying Shortrun Costs of Soil Conservation Practices

Raitt, Daryll D. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1981

conservation practices for specific soils. Erosion rates, costs per acre, and costs per ton reduction of erosion are displayed in a …

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