ABSTRACT:
According to a national, interregional linear programming model, widespread adoption of organic farming methods in the United States would increase national net farm income and satisfy domestic demand for agricultural products. However, consumer food costs would increase, export levels would decline, regional shifts in production would occur, and the large reserve of potential crop production would disappear.
Footnotes
Kent D. Olson is an agricultural economist with Cooperative Extension at the University of California, Davis, 95616. James Langley is a research assistant and Earl O. Heady is director and distinguished professor at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011. Journal Paper No. J-10081 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa. Project No. 2103.
- Copyright 1982 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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