PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alex Barbarika, Jr.
AU  - Jim Langley
TI  - Budgetary and farm-sector impacts of the 1985–1990 Conservation Reserve Program
DP  - 1992 May 01
TA  - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
PG  - 264--267
VI  - 47
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.jswconline.org/content/47/3/264.short
4100  - http://www.jswconline.org/content/47/3/264.full
AB  - Computer simulation models of corn, wheat, cotton, and soybean markets were used to investigate the budgetary and farm income impacts of the 1985–1990 Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) over the period from 1986 to 2000. Results indicate that the CRP increases farm income and crop prices. Over 15 years, government outlays increase by an estimated $8.5 billion (undiscounted), consisting of $18.2 billion in CRP payments to fanners, of set by $9.1 billion in commodity program outlay reductions. The estimated commodity program savings vary depending upon assumptions about acreage limitation requirements of U.S. Department of Agriculture commodity programs if the CRP had not been implemented.