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This study investigates the carbon sequestration potential and co-benefits from policies aimed at retiring agricultural land in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, a large, heavily agricultural area. We extend the empirical measurement of co-benefits from the previous focus on environmental...

 

In 2008, the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico, measuring 20720 km2, was one of the two largest reported since measurement of the zone began in 1985. The extent of the hypoxic zone is related to nitrogen and phosphorous loadings originating on agricultural fields in the upper Midwest. This...

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This paper estimates the costs of implementing a broad ranging set of conservation practices on Iowa's landscape. A water quality model is combined with economic cost estimates to predict the improved water quality and costs associated with this set of conservation practices identified