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Effect of the 1985 Farm Bill Provisions on Farmers' Soil Conservation Decisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Jeffrey M. Gillespie ,
L. Upton Hatch  and
Patricia A. Duffy
Jeffrey M. Gillespie
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Department, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, Alabama
L. Upton Hatch
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Department, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, Alabama
Patricia A. Duffy
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Department, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, Alabama
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Abstract

Conservation initiatives in the 1985 Farm Bill affected farmers' decisions regarding soil conservation. A farmer survey was conducted and a multi-period mixed-integer programming model was developed to determine an optimal farm plan with choices of crop-tillage combinations and land retirement Results indicate that farmers' incentives to reduce soil loss in the Sand Mountain region in Alabama are not substantially affected by provisions of the 1985 Farm Bill. The bid price for the Conservation Reserve Program will have to be considerably higher than 1988 levels to provide an incentive to remove land from production.

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soil conservationconservation reserve programagricultural commodity programs

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , December 1990 , pp. 179 - 189
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1990

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