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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
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Low-cost animal drawn implements for Vertisol management and strategies for land use intensification
Astatke, Abiye; Jabbar, Mohammad A. - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2001
attachments like planters and cultivators to the BBM for minimum tillage system which are going to be tested on-farm are also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011246220
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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
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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
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"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
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Whole Farm Modeling of the Effect of Risk on Optimal Tillage and Nitrogen Fertilizer Intensity
Gandorfer, Markus; Pannell, David J.; Meyer-Aurich, Andreas - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020428
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Best Management Practices to Enhance Water Quality: Who is Adopting Them?
Ghazalian, Pascal L.; Larue, Bruno; West, Gale E. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41 (2009) 03
This study investigates the determinants affecting producers’ adoption of some Best Management Practices (BMPs). Priors about the signs of certain variables are explicitly accounted for by testing for inequality restrictions through importance sampling. Education, gender, age, and on-farm...
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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