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Balancing Productivity And Environmental Benefits In The Environmental Quality Incentive Program (Eqip)

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  • Doering, Otto C., III

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A concern with productivity has to be tempered with our history of declining real prices for agricultural commodities which signal to some degree a certain amount of excess capacity in agriculture in the United States. Thus, environmental concerns today may logically outweigh productivity concerns. Conservation Programs that preceded the present EQIP program, such as the ACP, often had a productivity component that also was designed to help redistribute income to farmers. In terms of productivity, this may have been as direct as subsidizing the application of lime or the installation of drainage. It may have been more indirect, such as improving damaged lands that could then be returned to production. In any case, some portion of conservation programs was seen as productivity enhancing. This was viewed as a worthwhile public expenditure as was the income transfer that went along with it.

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  • Doering, Otto C., III, 1998. "Balancing Productivity And Environmental Benefits In The Environmental Quality Incentive Program (Eqip)," 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT 20866, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea98:20866
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20866
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    1. Batie, Sandra S., 1999. "Green Payments As Foreshadowed By Eqip," Staff Paper Series 11750, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.

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