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Complementary or Competitive? Emerging Interactions Between Restoration and Protection in the Conservation Reserve Program

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) delivers environmental benefits to society by enrolling cropland and grasslands to reestablish or safeguard long‐term vegetative cover. In recent years, the CRP has dramatically increased grassland enrollment while cropland enrollment has been in steady decline. This paper uses descriptive analysis,
Wesley Zebrowski, Tyler Lark, Rich Iovanna   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of land consolidation on farmer income: evidence from high-standard farmland construction in China

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Land consolidation has become an organized and widely implemented project in rural areas. However, research remains somewhat scarce on the contributing mechanism of land consolidation to farmer income in developing countries.
Xiaoxuan Chen, Zhou Xue, Guoying Han, Qiang Gao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Expanded Farm Safety Net Payments Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) strengthens the agricultural risk coverage (ARC) and price loss coverage (PLC) programs by aligning program parameters more closely with recent market dynamics and allows for an expansion in program acres. This study projects the increases in ARC‐County and PLC payments for corn, soybeans, and wheat under
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Tayatorn Pongspikul, Alejandro Plastina, Anup Paudel, Chandan Bhattarai, Jennifer Ifft   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arkansas Union Farmer newspapers

, 1955
This collection contains newspapers from the Arkansas Union Farmer ...
National Farmers' Union (U.S.). Arkansas Division
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Scaling rainwater harvesting for irrigation in Kenya: potential sustainability risks and the need for adaptive governance

Environmental Research: Food Systems
Rainwater harvesting for irrigation (RWHI) systems offer many benefits to smallholder farmers in Kenya, including the possibility of agricultural intensification and improved resilience to climate change in more arid areas.
Radhika Singh, Nicholas Oguge, Collins Odote   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Farmer-led conservation of red-fleshed jackfruit in India: economic viability, consumer preferences and policy implications

Cogent Food & Agriculture
This study examines the economic viability and market potential of two farmer-conserved red-fleshed jackfruit varieties, ‘Siddu’ and ‘Shankara’, from Karnataka, India, registered under PPVFRA with ICAR-IIHR support.
Ganesan Karunakaran, H. V. Harishkumar, M. R. Dinesh, B. T. Lavanya, A. N. Vijaya Kumar, T. Ruchitha, K. Abhilash, N. Ravi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rational Expectations and Market Timing: An Event Study of the China–United States Phase One Trade Deal

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rational actors constantly incorporate information into their decision‐making behavior. Since there is often a time lag between the announcement of a policy and its implementation, an important question arises: when do rational actors incorporate new information into their market behavior, at the announcement or at the implementation of a ...
Tim Ölkers, Oliver Mußhoff
wiley   +1 more source

Toward net-zero farming systems using diversity, integration, and perenniality in the Black Soil Zone of the Canadian prairies: A co-design approach

Soil Security
Agricultural production in Canada’s Black Soil Zone is highly productive but dependent on simplified monoculture systems that contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, biodiversity loss, and soil degradation.
M.K. Carkner, J. Thiessen Martens, M. Arcand, K. Bobiwash, M.R.C. Cordeiro, M. King, Y. Lawley, K.H. Ominski, J. Goodwin, M.G. Bakker, M. Bourgault, V. Garcia, H.D.R. Carvalho, X. Gao, M.H. Entz   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Cow or the Credit: Causal Relationship Between California Dairy Herd Consolidation and Anaerobic Digesters

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The California dairy industry has experienced considerable consolidation over the past 30 years. During this period, there has also been substantial technological innovation, implementation of the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard program, and rapid adoption of anaerobic digesters.
Michael McCullough, Jarrett Hart
wiley   +1 more source

Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source