Cross-Compliance as a Soil Conservation Strategy: A Case Study

Sandra S. Batie and Alyson G. Sappington

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1986, vol. 68, issue 4, 880-885

Abstract: The financial impacts of a hypothetical cross-compliance program were estimated for seventy-six farmers in Gibson County, Tennessee. Several federal program benefits were compared to the least-cost method of achieving one of four different soil displacement limits to determine if the costs of voluntarily participating in a cross-compliance program were greater than the benefits. If cost-sharing were available, farmers would have a positive incentive to cross comply to 5 tons per acre per year on 57.3 percent of all fields. This figure rises to 90.9 percent compliance at 20 tons per acre per year.

Date: 1986
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