Unpublished Paper
The Conservation Reserve Program in the Presence of a Working Land Alternative: Implications for Environmental Quality, Program Participation, and Income Transfer
CARD Working Papers
Publication Date
8-1-2005
Series Number
05-WP 402
Abstract
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.
Publication Information
This workign paper was published as Feng, Hongli, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Silvia Secchi and Philip W. Gassman, "The Conservation Reserve Program in the Presence of a Working Land Alternative: Implications for Environmental Quality, Program Participation, and Income Transfer," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87 (2005): 1231–1238, doi:10.1111/j.1467-8276.2005.00812.x.
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Citation Information
Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Silvia Secchi, et al.. "The Conservation Reserve Program in the Presence of a Working Land Alternative: Implications for Environmental Quality, Program Participation, and Income Transfer" (2005) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hongli-hennessy/26/