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Integrating Commodity and Conservation Programs: Design Options and Outcomes

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  • Claassen, Roger
  • Aillery, Marcel P.
  • Nickerson, Cynthia J.

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Can a single program support farm income and encourage producers to adopt environmentally sound farming practices? While simple in concept, attempting to roll the farm income support features of existing commodity programs and conservation payments into a single program raises questions. Exactly how would farm commodity and conservation payments be combined? What difference would it make for environmental gain and farm income support? This report approaches the questions in two ways. First, spending patterns in existing commodity and conservation programs are analyzed to determine the extent to which producers who are currently receiving commodity payments also receive conservation payments. Then, a number of hypothetical program scenarios are devised and analyzed to estimate how emphasis on current income support recipients would differ from a combined program that focuses on achieving cost-effective environmental gain. The results show that policymakers face significant tradeoffs between environmental conservation) objectives and farm income support objectives in designing a program that provides both income support and environmental gain.

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  • Claassen, Roger & Aillery, Marcel P. & Nickerson, Cynthia J., 2007. "Integrating Commodity and Conservation Programs: Design Options and Outcomes," Economic Research Report 6703, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersrr:6703
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.6703
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