The Impact of Energy on the Adoption of Conservation Tillage in the United States

Noel D. Uri
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Noel D. Uri: Resource Economics Division, Economic Research Service U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC

Energy & Environment, 1998, vol. 9, issue 5, 549-568

Abstract: The impact of energy on the adoption of conservation tillage is of special importance in addressing concerns about the effect of agricultural production on the environment in the United States. It is the subject of this paper. After establishing that a relationship exists between the price of energy and the adoption of conservation tillage via cointegration techniques, the relationship is quantified. It is shown that while the real price of crude oil, the proxy used for the price of energy, does not affect the rate of adoption of conservation tillage, it does impact the extent to which it is used. Finally, there is no structural instability in the relationship between the relative use of conservation tillage and the real price of crude oil over the period 1963 to 1997.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1177/0958305X9800900507

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