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Environmental and Economic Impacts of Agricultural Policy Reform: An Interregional Comparison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Kathleen M. Painter  and
Douglas L. Young
Kathleen M. Painter
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6210
Douglas L. Young
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6210
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Abstract

Mathematical programming results revealed that moving toward more flexible agricultural policies would generate substantial economic and environmental gains in a North Carolina diversified cropping region. But in a Washington-Idaho dryland grains region, only the use of relatively new and sometimes problematic alternative cropping systems permitted environmental and economic gains under policy reform. In both regions, a recoupling policy, which links government payments to resource-conserving farming practices, was needed to protect environmental quality when market prices for program crops were high.

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agrichemical leachingagricultural policyalternative agricultureerosionmathematical programming
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , December 1994 , pp. 451 - 462
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1994

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