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Conservation Reserve Program in the Presence of a Working Land Alternative: Implications for Environmental Quality, Program Participation, and Income Transfer, The

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Feng, Hongli
Kling, Catherine L.
Kurkalova, Lyubov A.
Secchi, Silvia
Gassman, Philip W.

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The United States has invested large sums of resources in multiple conservation programs for agriculture over the past century. In this paper we focus on the impacts of program interactions. Specifically, using an integrated economic and bio-physical modeling framework, we consider the impacts of the presence of working land programs on a land retirement for an important agricultural region—the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). Compared to a land retirement only program, we find that the presence of a working land program for conservation tillage results in significantly lower predicted signups for land retirement at a given rental rate. We also find that the presence of both a large working land and land retirement program can result in more environmental benefits and income transfers than a land retirement only program can achieve.

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Paper provided by Iowa State University, Department of Economics in its series Staff General Research Papers with number 12411.

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Publication status: Published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, December 2005, Vol. 87, No. 5, pp. 1231-1238.
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Keywords: Conservation Reserve Program; conservation tillage; environmental quality; income transfer; working land programs.;

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  1. Babcock, Bruce A. & Lakshminarayan, P. G. & Wu, JunJie & Zilberman, David, 1997. "Economics of a Public Fund for Environmental Amenities (The)," Staff General Research Papers 1065, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
  2. Feather, Peter & Hellerstein, Daniel & Hansen, Leroy, 1999. "Economic Valuation of Environmental Benefits and the Targeting of Conservation Programs: The Case of the CRP," Agricultural Economics Reports 34027, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. [Downloadable!]
  3. Kurkalova, Lyubov & Burkart, Christopher & Secchi, Silvia, 2004. "Cropland Cash Rental Rates in the Upper Mississippi River Basin," Staff General Research Papers 12204, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Hongli Feng & Lyubov A. Kurkalova & Catherine L. Kling & Philip W. Gassman, 2004. "Environmental Conservation in Agriculture: Land Retirement versus Changing Practices on Working Land," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications 04-wp365, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Smith, Vincent H. & Goodwin, Barry K., 2003. "An Ex Post Evaluation of the Conservation Reserve, Federal Crop Insurance, and Other Government Programs: Program Participation and Soil Erosion," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 28(02), August. [Downloadable!]
  6. Claassen, Roger & Hansen, Leroy & Peters, Mark & Breneman, Vince & Weinberg, Marca & Cattaneo, Andrea & Feather, Peter & Gadsby, Dwight & Hellerstein, Daniel & Hopkins, Jeff & Johnston, Paul & Morehar, 2001. "Agri-Environmental Policy at the Crossroads: Guideposts on a Changing Landscape," Agricultural Economics Reports 33983, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Taheripour, Farzad, 2006. "Economic Impacts of the Conservation Reserve Program: A General Equilibrium Framework," 2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA 21346, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association). [Downloadable!]
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