Climate Change and the Economics of Conservation Tillage

Whitney Hodde, Juan Sesmero (), Benjamin Gramig, Tony Vyn and Otto Doering

No 236090, 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: This study evaluates the economics of conservation tillage (chisel till and no till) and examines how climate change will likely affect it. We use data from long-term experimental plots in Indiana to estimate how corn and soybean yields respond to weather patterns under alternative tillage practices. Yield functions are coupled with random draws of weather variables to construct distributions describing the probability that conservation tillage will result in higher profits than more intensive tillage, under current and future climatic regimes. Results suggest that, in our study area, projected climate change will make conservation tillage more attractive.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Production Economics; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.236090

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