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implementation of regulatory tools to achieve water conservation objectives. Two articles focus on Texas water issues and the third …
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The Rio Grande has headwaters in Colorado, flows through New Mexico, and serves as the United States.–Mexico border in Texas, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. Snow melt in Colorado and northern New Mexico constitutes the water river supply for New Mexico and the El Paso region, whereas...
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The inclusion of cover crops in cropping systems brings direct and indirect costs and benefits. Farmers will adopt and utilize cover crops as long as the perceived benefit of using them is positive. This paper examines the demographic and management factors affecting the adoption and perceived...
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by specific federal conservation and farm support policies, including changes in the Conservation Reserve Program …
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The paper examines the joint adoption of conservation tillage, crop rotations, and soil testing by small and limited …-resource farmers in the Southeast. The objectives are to determine the potential eligibility of small farmers for the Conservation … conservation practices. Results indicate that conservation management, ethnicity, and farm characteristics affect practice adoption …
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evaluating the impacts of conservation strategies aimed at reallocating or extending the life of water supplies are being met … groups be involved from the beginning in the identification of potential water conservation strategies and be kept informed …
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sites with and without applied conservation practices for a random sample of Great Plains counties. No significant … differences between sites are found for half of the counties evaluated. The effectiveness and efficiency of conservation policies …
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payments are received. The bill also expanded the availability of key conservation programs. This paper compares the value of …
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Conservation reserve program (CRP) payments amount to several billion dollars annually. Payments are allocated to both … remove land from production and to help farmers pay for conservation improvements. However, research examining whether …
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soil and water quality. Landowners considering enrollment in conservation programs must compare the monetary and … was to improve the understanding of the factors affecting a landowner’s decision to enroll in conservation programs …. Papers addressed the environmental benefits of conservation programs and compared the returns to enrolling in conservation …
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