ABSTRACT:
Filter strips are an important addition to farm conservation programs. Farmers' willingness to participate in a 10-year filter strip program were measured using contingent valuation survey methods. Data indicate that the yearly payment offered to participants, farmers' preferences, and opportunity costs make a difference in their decisions about participation. Farmers more likely will participate in a filter strip program if the rules allow haying or other economic uses of the enrolled cropland.
Footnotes
Amy Purvis, now a Ph.D. student in the Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611, was a research assistant; John P. Hoehn is an assistant professor; and Vernon L. Sorenson is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics; and Francis J. Pierce is a professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824. The authors acknowledge support for this research from the Economics Division of the Soil Conservation Service and from the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.
- Copyright 1989 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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