Download or read book Farmer Decision Making and Likelihood to Participate in the Conservation Reserve Program written by Sarah Hazel Young and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early successional habitat and grasslands declined across the United States over the last 50 years. This decline is detrimental to both plant and wildlife diversity. The trend is particularly strong throughout the Midwest. Land conservation programs, such as the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), provide farmers financial incentives to engage in a specific land conservation practice for a period of 10-15 years. Programs such as the CRP can help to combat the loss of early successional habitat; however the programs are conducted via voluntary enrollment. Therefore, understanding factors influencing farmers' decisions to enroll in the CRP, and specifically what factors could increase their willingness to enroll are important to explore. I explored farmer's subjective norms, trust in federal agencies, risk tolerance, self-efficacy, demographic factors, and perceived costs and benefits of the program and their effect on farmer's willingness to enroll in the CRP. A mail-back survey was administered to 6000 farmers in six counties in Ohio. Results indicate that costs and benefits, specifically perceived environmental health benefit is the most important indicator of willingness to enroll in CRP. Geographic region may also influence which factors are most indicative of overall willingness to enroll.

Download or read book Farmers Decision making Relating to Participation in Conservation water pollution Reduction Programs written by Tana Kappel and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Conservation Reserve Program written by Cheryl Joy Wachenheim and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservation Reserve Program, one of more than twenty voluntary conservation programs administered by the United State Department of Agriculture, was initiated under the Agricultural Act of 1985 and has evolved under subsequent farm bills. Today, enrollment acres are selected among qualifying land based on an environmental benefits index. Total land enrolled will drop to a maximum of 24 million acres under the Agricultural Act of 2014. This report covers a broad scope of existing literature related to the Conservation Reserve Program. Although much of the literature is dated and not reflective of today's markets, the currency of the message is that landowners respond to financial incentives. Further, uncertainty about the costs and financial benefits has endured as a hindrance to enrollment that may otherwise be attractive to landowners. Research supports the influence of a host of additional factors including those non-financial. A focus on consideration of local conditions and specific conservation practices will aid future research, although specificity must be balanced against incorporating landowner consideration of other land-use alternatives. The literature emphasizes the need to educate decision-makers on all aspects of conservation program options likely to influence their enrollment decision using a venue that is accessible to them. This information should stress economic factors and focus on specifics such as the impact of a specific conservation practice locally and the likely economic impact of various options for the individual producer. We should look for innovative, efficient methods to increase farmer access to this information to include social networks and peer education.

Download or read book Economic Analysis of the Interrelationships Among Off farm Work Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program and Farm Productivity of Farm Households in the United States written by Hung-Hao Chang and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Farmer Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program written by Danielle Yvonne Jones and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impacts of the Conservation Reserve Program in the Great Plains written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Factors Affecting Farmer Attitudes Towards Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program in Wicomico County written by Spencer H. Waller and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Conservation Reserve Program written by David Arthur Force and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Midwest Farmers Decision making in Conservation Agriculture Adoption written by Qi Tian and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation Agriculture (CA) adoption can alleviate the environmental consequences of conventional agricultural production while maintaining yields. A better understanding of farmers' decision-making in CA adoption is needed to inform policy design that encourages adoption. In the absence of the CA adoption market, experimental methods provide an essential alternative to investigate decision-makers' preference. Therefore, this dissertation leverages a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) to analyze farmers' decision-making to shed light on policy design as well as to inform methodological issues associated with DCE approach.The first chapter evaluates farmers' Willingness-to-Accept (WTA) CA practices and assesses the factors affecting the WTA. In addition to the payment to compensate the expenses or efforts of taking a CA practice, a substantial payment is needed to incentivize farmers leaving the status quo and committing to a CA program. Internal factors, such as farmers' characteristics and experience with CA practices, as well as external factors, i.e., policy design in terms of information framing and the decision time window, both have impacts on the WTA. These findings provide a practical guide for cost-efficient policy design.The traditional DCE approach for stated preference evaluation builds on an essential assumption that decision-making is reference independent, i.e., independent of irrelevant alternatives. The second chapter develops a new framework to relax and test this assumption by incorporating behavioral realism into modeling. I found that decision-makers use behavioral strategies, i.e., reference dependence, in decision making, and that different sources of information are evaluated differently as reference points. These findings, on the one hand, set caveats for modeling DCE data based on independence of irrelevance assumption, and on the other hand, indicate a more cost-efficient policy design tool that nudges desired behaviors through shaping the reference point.Three decision-making strategies could describe the decision making in a DCE: reference independence, reference dependence, and attributes non-attendance. This last chapter explicitly discusses which strategy is adopted and how such strategies evolve in repeated choice tasks. I found that decision-makers use behavioral strategies to make decisions. As decision-makers collect information over the repeated choice scenarios, they are shifting from the current choice set to the path as the reference point. Failing to account for the reference dependence behavior in choice modeling could misidentify the attended attributes as non-attended. This finding suggests that the reference dependence model can be a guiding choice for DCE modeling. Again, this chapter implies that discrete choice modeling without accounting for behavioral realism will fail to reveal the true preference.

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Download or read book Does Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program And or Off farm Work Affect the Level and Distribution of Farm Household Income written by Hung-hao Chang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementing Agricultural Conservation Practices written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Farm Family Business written by Ruth Gasson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1949 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming as it is practised in market industrialized countries is predominantly a family business. This book argues that the nature of the farm business cannot be properly understood without reference to the family that operates it. Examples are taken from the UK, USA, Europe and Australasia.

Download or read book The Economics of Agri Environmental Policy Volume II written by Sandra S. Batie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set collects key essays examining economic theory, methods, and issues salient to agri-environmental policy in the US and in Europe, as well as in other countries. The topics under discussion are arranged thematically and include theoretical, numerical and empirical works; all are grounded in policy and economics. The introduction to these volumes reviews the evolution of agri-environmental policies, with an important focus on the history of US policy and European agri-environmental policy. A key feature within this is the importance of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US, particularly its move towards more 'market-based incentives' from the 1980s onwards. Within the European context, the effects of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) on agri-environmental programmes and schemes within the member states, are discussed. Significantly, the essays republished here have provided the knowledge base that has influenced further applied work, creating an influential impact on policy development.

Download or read book The Diversion of Land written by C. Paul Burnham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European agriculture is on the brink of a financial and ecological crisis. The authors assess the challenge facing policy makers and those involved in the industry, arguing for the preparation of an environmental agenda based on land organisation and diversion.

Download or read book Conserving Data in the Conservation Reserve written by James Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enrolling over 30 million acres, the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest conservation program in the United States. Under the guidelines of the CRP, the federal government pays farmers to stop farming their land in the hopes of achieving a variety of conservation goals, including the reduction of soil erosion, improvement of water quality, and creation of wildlife habitat. In Conserving Data, James T. Hamilton explores the role of information in the policy cycle as it relates to the CRP. The author asks how the creation and distribution of information about what is going on across these millions of enrolled acres has influenced the development of the program itself. Of the many CRP stakeholders, each accesses a different set of information about the CRP‘s operations. Regulators have developed the Environmental Benefits Index as a rough indicator of a fields conservation benefits and adopted that measure as a way to determine which lands should be granted conservation contracts. NGOs have used publicly available data from these contracts to show how CRP monies are allocated. Members of Congress have used oversight hearings and GAO reports to monitor the Farm Service Agency‘s conservation policy decisions. Reporters have localized the impact of the CRP by writing stories about increases in wildlife and hunting on CRP fields in their areas. Conserving Data brings together and analyzes these various streams of information, drawing upon original interviews with regulators, new data from Freedom of Information Act requests, and regulatory filings. Using the CRP as a launch point, Hamilton explores the role of information, including 'hidden information,' in the design and implementation of regulatory policy.