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Working Farm Participation and Acreage Enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Dayton M. Lambert ,
Patrick Sullivan  and
Roger Claassen
Dayton M. Lambert
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Patrick Sullivan
Affiliation:
Rural and Resource Economics Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
Roger Claassen
Affiliation:
Rural and Resource Economics Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
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Abstract

Among Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) participants, there is a distinction between farm households using the program to ease out of farming and those using the program to augment production receipts. We find evidence that factors other than crop or livestock revenue and environmental factors are associated with program participation and acreage enrollment among farmers who continue agricultural production. Program payments and farm size are positively associated with the amount of land enrolled in the CRP, and characteristics of participants in land retirement and working-lands CRP components are similar.

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acreage enrollmentConservation Reserve Programland retirementprogram participationworking farmsworking-land conservationQ24Q28
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , April 2007 , pp. 151 - 169
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2007

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