Comments on "Expanding grass-based agriculture on marginal land in the U.S. Great Plains: The role of management intensive grazing"

Yuyuan Che and David Hennessy

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications from Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University

Abstract: A recent paper by Wang et al. (2021) argues that management intensive grazing (MIG) practice adoption might be ‘ … a key factor for restoring marginal croplands to permanent grassland cover … ' in the United States Northern Great Plains. The matter is important for land use policy because U.S. Federal and State governments actively seek to promote grass cover through a variety of policy instruments. In this note we show that the significant positive coefficient on MIG adoption they estimate in a multivariate ordered probit model does not indicate a valid causal relationship. Their estimates are vulnerable to bias and inconsistency due to potential endogeneity and so do not support their policy inference.

Date: 2021-05
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