Potential Use of the Conservation Security Program to Encourage Diverse Crop Rotations in Eastern South Dakota

Thomas Dobbs () and Nicholas Streff
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Thomas Dobbs: Department of Economics, South Dakota State University
Nicholas Streff: Department of Economics, South Dakota State University

No 200601, Research Reports from South Dakota State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: A central concern in many discussions of ecological sustainability in agricultural regions of the U.S. Midwest and Great Plains is that of crop system diversity. Many factors have contributed to the loss of crop system diversity over that last half-century (Dumke and Dobbs), one of which is public policy. The U.S. Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (‘2002 Farm Bill’) provided for a new agri-environmental program that could have potential to help restore some of the crop system diversity that has been lost. The Conservation Security Program (CSP) is that program. This report, drawn from a Master of Science in Economics thesis by one of us (Streff), contains results of an examination of the CSP’s potential to help induce more crop system diversity in southeastern South Dakota (SD).

Keywords: Conservation reserve program; CRP; land use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-07
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