ABSTRACT:
Among the initiatives in the 1985 farm bill that affected farmers' soil conservation decisions were the Conservation Reserve Program, the 50/92 program, the optional paid land diversion program, and provisions of the basic commodity programs. A farmer survey, conducted in the Sand Mountain region of Alabama, produced information that allowed the calculation of costs and returns for 35 crop-tillage combinations. New policies that proved attractive to farmers included basic commodity programs and the optional paid land diversion program using conservation cultural practices.
Footnotes
Jeffrey M. Gillespie is a graduate assistant and L. Upton Hatch and Patricia A. Duffy are assistant professors in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, Alabama 36849-5406.
- Copyright 1989 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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