Similar Search Results

How Potential Carbon Policies Could Affect Where and How Cotton Is Produced in the United States

Nalley, Lawton Lanier; Popp, Michael P.; Niederman, Zara; … - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 41 (2012) 2

Using life cycle assessment methodology, this analysis evaluates how two carbon reduction strategies affect cotton plantings regionally and methods used to produce cotton. Because cotton production emits large amounts of carbon, the design of a reduction policy as either excluding soil...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011199713

Poverty reduction through improved agricultural water management; Proceedings of the Workshop on Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia Islamabad, Pakist...

Hussain, Intizar - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009398468

"No-Till" Farming Is a Growing Practice

Horowitz, John K.; Ebel, Robert M.; Ueda, Kohei - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2010

Most U.S. farmers prepare their soil for seeding and weed and pest control through tillage—plowing operations that … disturb the soil. Tillage practices affect soil carbon, water pollution, and farmers’ energy and pesticide use, and therefore … data on tillage can be valuable for understanding the practice’s role in reaching climate and other environmental goals. In …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741285

Estimating Farmers' Willingness to Change Tillage Practices to Supply Carbon Emissions Offsets

Gramig, Benjamin M.; Widmar, Nicole J.O. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2015

reducing tillage of agricultural soils. A choice experiment is conducted with corn and soybean farmers in Indiana, USA to … measure farmers' willingness to change tillage practices to supply carbon offsets by estimating their willingness to accept …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275747

Ecological Goods and Services Survey Summary Prepared for: Lower Souris Watershed Committee

Entem, Alicia; Unterschultz, James R.; Jeffrey, Scott R. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2009

An interview based survey of farm landowners in the south east corner of Saskatchewan was undertaken to evaluate the provision of wildlife habitat by agriculture. Producers were asked to provide management information regarding a piece of their land that was managed as a unit. Within the past...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550363

An Economic Evaluation of Conservation Farming Practices for the Central West of NSW

Farrell, Terence C. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008

Economic benefits that arise from conservation farming practices need to be assessed over several years to account for improvements in soil structure and nutrient levels. A gross margin model was used to assess benefits over the eight-year period 1999-2006 for 12 regions in the central west of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005338418

Manure Application Rules and Environmental Considerations

Massey, Raymond E.; Gedikoglu, Haluk - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011

Annual P Limit also increased the probability of a runoff event following manure application, relative to the other two … unintended consequence of increasing runoff. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922643

Water-resource and land-use issues

Calder, Ian R. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

This paper reviews perceived notions of the relationships between catchment land use and hydrology and explores whether much of the widely disseminated folklore, so often inextricably linked with issues of land use, is based on myth or reality. Gaps in our knowledge of the underlying processes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326100