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Farmer engagement using a precision approach to watershed-scale conservation planning: What do we know?

P. Ranjan, A.S. Singh, M.D. Tomer, A.M. Lewandowski and L.S. Prokopy
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation July 2020, 75 (4) 444-452; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2020.00072
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Abstract

Farmer engagement is an integral component of conservation planning, with increased emphasis on precision placement of conservation practices. Conservation planners are increasingly turning to tools like the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF)—a decision support tool (DST) that provides a menu-driven approach to conservation planning. Scholarship on human dimensions of precision conservation, also known as conservation targeting, has either examined farmers' general attitudes toward targeting, or when farmers are active participants in generating targeted practice options. However, less is known about farmers' perceptions of targeting when they receive targeted conservation options for fields they farm. With the goal of filling this knowledge gap, we present findings from semistructured in-depth interviews conducted with farmers in four watersheds in the US Midwest. Results suggest that farmers are receptive toward conservation options for their farms. Several factors influenced farmers' receptiveness toward site-specific conservation targeting, such as farmers having autonomy in the targeting process, and perceiving that the process had benefits such as field-scale validation of their natural resource concerns and its potential to encourage watershed thinking. Results also highlight the potential of conservation targeting in motivating conservation behavior. Recommendations for future conservation targeting include being mindful of the scale of the map and the amount of information presented, having boots on the ground, and engaging farmers one-on-one to motivate conservation behavior.

    Key words
  • Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework
  • decision support tools
  • disproportionality
  • precision conservation
  • semistructured interviews
  • watershed planning
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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Jul 2020, 75 (4) 444-452; DOI: 10.2489/jswc.2020.00072

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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Jul 2020, 75 (4) 444-452; DOI: 10.2489/jswc.2020.00072
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