Estimating the Costs of Conservation Compliance

Barbarika, Alexander, and Michael R. Dicks

Journal of Agricultural Economics Research, 1988, vol. 40, issue 3, 9

Abstract: The conservation compliance provision of the 1985 Food Security Act requires farmer to implement conservation plans on highly erodible croplan as a prerequisite for elegibility in agricultural commodity programs Reducing erosion to the soil loss tolerance level on about 46 million highly erodible cropland acres needing treatment would cost almost $700 million annually, an average of $15 per acre

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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