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Impact of United States Corn-based Ethanol Production on Land Use

Sobowale, Folakemi; Dicks, Michael R.; Campiche, Jody L. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011

The purpose of this research was to determine whether indirect land use occurs and if so to what extent. Indirect land use is a change from non-cropland to cropland (e.g. deforestation) that may occur in response to increasing scarcity of cropland. As farmers worldwide respond to higher crop...

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Water Conservation Policy Alternatives for the Ogallala Aquifer in the Texas Panhandle

Taylor, Robert H.; Almas, Lal K.; Lust, David G. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009

The continued decline in the availability of water from the Ogallala Aquifer has led to an increased interest in conservation policies designed to extend the life of the aquifer to sustain rural economies in the Texas Panhandle. This study evaluates the effectiveness of five policies in terms of...

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Macroeconomic Impacts of Water Use in Agriculture

Weinheimer, Justin; Wheeler-Cook, Erin; Ethridge, Don E.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010

The recent/current recession provides the opportunity to study the effects of the macroeconomic changes on the agricultural production systems in the Great Plains and trace some of its impacts through the system to changes in primary inputs such water resource use. Therefore, the objective of...

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Economic Assessment of Land Retirement in a Transition Economy: a Study Case of Ukraine

Kucher, Oleg; Collins, Alan R.; Fletcher, Jerald J. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010

This case study will focus on valuing degraded land conservation and assessment of the potential costs and benefits of large scale land retirement within the transition economy of Ukraine. The assessment methods will follow the framework developed to estimate costs and benefits of Conservation...

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Modeling Pine as a Carbon Sequestering Crop in Arkansas

Smith, S. Aaron; Popp, Michael P.; Nalley, Lawton Lanier - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011

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Exploring tax-based payment approach for forest carbon sequestration

Lee, Juhee; Cho, Seong-Hoon; Kim, Taeyoung; Yu, Tun-Hsiang - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

We seek to determine if the tax-based payment approach is a valid alternative to existing incentive payment approaches for forest carbon sequestration. To achieve the objective, we test a hypothesis that waiving the property tax rate on forestland provides incentives to landowners for...

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Household Willingness to Pay for Playa Restoration

Williams, Ryan B.; Mitchell, Donna M.; Neill, Clinton L.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

Playas are small wetlands, averaging 14 acres in area, which periodically fill with rainwater and evaporate, and are not connected to any other body of surface water. On the Texas High Plains, the roughly 17,000 existing playas are a source of recharge for the Ogallala aquifer and the greatest...

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The Economic Value of Wetlands as Storm Buffers

Boutwell, Luke; Westra, John - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

Communities along the US coast are highly vulnerable to coastal storms. Trends in population growth, climatic events and land use are likely to exacerbate future damages. Coastal management entities are faced with decisions about how to manage resources in a manner that improves environmental...

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Economic Impact of Hunting Expenditures on Southern U.S.

Poudel, Jagdish; Munn, Ian A.; Henderson, James E. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013

Hunting, fishing and wildlife-associated recreation expenditures have played an important role in the U.S economy and help promote conservation and environmental goals. The 2006 U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) survey reported 87.5 million people aged 16 and above participated in...

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Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption for Cotton Production

Paxton, Kenneth W.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Chintawar, Sachin; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010

behavior of individuals. This study investigates factors affecting the number of specific types of precision agriculture … that farmers with more within-field yield variability adopted a larger number of precision agriculture technologies …. Younger and better educated producers and the number of precision agriculture technologies were significantly correlated …

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