Download or read book Challenges Facing USDA s Conservation Reserve Program written by Daniel Hellerstein and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reductions in maximum Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres mandated by the 2008 Farm Act, along with relatively high agricultural commodity prices, could lead to reduced overall environmental benefits and higher CRP costs. ERS is analyzing alternative enrollment policies and practices that could increase environmental benefits per enrolled acre and lower program costs. The effectiveness of changes will depend on improved data and models to more accurately estimate the environmental benefits provided by competing offers to enroll land in the CRP.
Download or read book The Conservation Reserve Program written by Preston L. Cruz and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provides payments to agricultural producers to take highly erodible and environmentally sensitive land out of production and install resource conserving practices for 10 or more years. CRP was first authorized in the Food Security Act of 1985 and is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Farm Service Agency (FSA) with technical support from other USDA agencies. This book discusses the issues and considerations of the CRP.
Download or read book Review of USDA s Administration of the Conservation Reserve Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation, and Credit and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conservation Reserve Program and Its Effect on Land Values written by Robbin Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation Reserve Program written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation Reserve Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), enacted in 1985, provides payments to farmers to take highly erodible or environmentally sensitive cropland out of production for ten years or more to conserve soil and water resources. It is the federal government's largest private land retirement program. The program is administered by the Farm Service Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with technical assistance provided by USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. CRP has several subprograms, the best-known of which is the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). Congress reauthorized and amended the CRP through FY2007 in the 2002 farm bill and increased the CRP enrollment cap from 36.4 million acres to 39.2 million acres. Congress also added wildlife resources as a CRP objective and allowed participants to extend certain contracts up to 15 years. Along with a "general sign-up" in 2004 for landowners to submit bids to enroll acreage, USDA also announced two CRP initiatives: one to enroll 250,000 acres of bobwhite quail habitat and a second to enroll 250,000 acres of non-floodplain wetlands. Landowners may apply to enroll in these initiatives any time through December 31, 2007, or until the enrollment caps are reached. Between 2007 and 2010, 28 million acres under CRP contracts will expire, with 16 million acres in 2007 alone. In June 2006, USDA announced that contracts for approximately 13 million acres were renewed. An additional 1 million acres were also added under the latest general sign-up. Reenrollments for contracts expiring 2008-2010 were announced in late summer 2006. This report will be updated periodically.
Download or read book Review of the Conservation Reserve Program Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program and Other Conservation Matters Affecting U S Agriculture written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation, and Credit and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation Reserve Program CRP written by Megan Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), which provides payments to agricultural producers to take highly erodible and environmentally sensitive land out of production and install resource conserving practices for 10 or more years. CRP was first authorized in the Food Security Act of 1985 (P.L. 99-198, 1985 farm bill) and is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Farm Service Agency (FSA) with technical support from other USDA agencies.
Download or read book USDA Conservation Programs written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Participation in Conservation Programs by Targeted Farmers written by Cynthia J. Nickerson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning, limited-resource, and socially disadvantaged farmers make up 40% of all U.S. farms. Some Federal conservation programs contain provisions that encourage participation by such ¿targeted¿ farmers. This report compares the natural resource characteristics, resource issues, and conservation treatment costs on farms operated by targeted farmers with those of other participants. Targeted farmers tend to operate more environmentally sensitive land than other farmers, have different conservation priorities, and receive different levels of payments. The different conservation priorities among types of farmers suggest that if a significantly larger proportion of targeted farmers participate in these programs, the programs¿ economic and environmental outcomes could change. Tables and graphs.
Download or read book Agricultural Conservation Issues in the 111th Congress written by Megan Stubbs and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural conservation has been a public policy issue for more than 60 years. Congress has repeatedly taken action on the issue through water and soil legislation, often as part of omnibus farm bills. The USDA¿s conservation efforts have centered on implementing these conservation programs through working land conservation practices, retiring land from production or estab. conservation easements, and providing technical assistance. The climate change debate and use of ecosystem services markets has brought conservation to the forefront of discussion on the role of agriculture in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Also, the effect of ethanol production on natural resources and changes in land use is an ongoing concern in the area of biofuels policy.
Download or read book Conservation Reserve Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), enacted in 1985, provides payments to farmers to take highly erodible or environmentally sensitive cropland out of production for ten years or more to conserve soil and water resources. It is the federal government's largest private land retirement program. The program is administered by the Farm Service Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with technical assistance provided by USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. CRP has several subprograms, the best-known of which is the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). Congress reauthorized and amended the CRP through FY2007 in the 2002 farm bill and increased the CRP enrollment cap from 36.4 million acres to 39.2 million acres. Congress also added wildlife resources as a CRP objective and allowed participants to extend certain contracts up to 15 years. Along with a "general sign-up" in 2004 for landowners to submit bids to enroll acreage, USDA also announced two CRP initiatives: one to enroll 250,000 acres of bobwhite quail habitat and a second to enroll 250,000 acres of non-floodplain wetlands. Landowners may apply to enroll in these initiatives any time through December 31, 2007, or until the enrollment caps are reached. Between 2007 and 2010, 28 million acres under CRP contracts will expire, with 16 million acres in 2007 alone. In June 2006, USDA announced that contracts for approximately 13 million acres were renewed. An additional 1 million acres were also added under the latest general sign-up. Reenrollments for contracts expiring 2008-2010 were announced in late summer 2006. This report will be updated periodically.
Download or read book The Determinants and Effects of Enrollment in the USDA Conservation Reserve Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a series of three essays exploring the determinants and effects of enrollment in the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The CRP is the United States' largest federal conservation program, currently enrolling over 34 million acres of productive cropland. The CRP pays landowners to idle productive cropland by replacing crops with approved covers such as native grasses or trees. The CRP has a large and wide-ranging impact on both CRP and non-CRP land through its effects on farm profits and farm and non-farm economies, and enlightened CRP policy requires understanding of the determinants of CRP enrollment as well as the magnitude of its effects. In the first essay I use a stochastic dynamic programming framework to construct an options model of CRP enrollment that characterizes landowner decisions to enroll in the CRP in terms of a threshold value of current agricultural returns. The model predicts changes in enrollment choices due to differences in market uncertainty and individual-specific risk aversion, and to changes in policy variables such as the length of CRP contracts and the frequency of sign-ups. The model predicts that landowner decisions to enroll in the CRP are significantly affected by variables absent from previous options models, and provides more realistic counterfactual policy analysis that provides policy makers with ex-ante insight into possible changes to the CRP. In the second essay I estimate the determinants of CRP enrollment using a parcel-level empirical model and Minnesota farmland data. The parcel-level data represent a significant improvement in data resolution over previous studies. I address specification concerns by including non-CRP government payments and a uniquely comprehensive index of land productivity, and use a censored normal regression framework to accommodate censoring in the participation data. All model specifications suggest a negative and statistically s.
Download or read book Agricultural Conservation written by Larry Dyckman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservation Reserve Program is the Fed. gov't's. largest single conservation program, and compensates landowners for taking highly erodible cropland or environmentally sensitive land out of ag. production. State tech. committees (STC) advise USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Serv. (NRCS) state conservationists on the implementation of NRCS-administered conservation programs in each state. This report obtained the views of members of STC on the effectiveness of USDA's conservation efforts in addressing environmental objectives (EO) related to ag., and any program elements that hinder the achieve. of EO related to ag., as well as program characteristics that programs might include to better meet these objectives.
Download or read book Balancing the Multiple Objectives of Conservation Programs written by Andrea Cattaneo and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many conservation programs seek to achieve multiple environ. objectives. Implementing a multi-objective program efficiently requires program managers to balance different environ. and cost objectives. Some conservation programs use an index approach to prioritize objectives and rank program applications. This approach keeps program objectives distinct and enables program managers to use weights to determine the relative importance of each objective. This report provides empirical evidence on the environ. and cost tradeoffs of different index weighting schemes at the USDA. The analyses take into account both land characteristics and how changes to an index affect producer decisions. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Flexible Conservation Measures on Working Land written by Andrea Cattaneo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Determinants and Effects of Enrollment in the USDA Conservation Reserve Program written by Jacob Nathaniel Brimlow and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: real options, endogeneity, agricultural land value, agricultural land productivity, Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Environmental Benefits Index.
