RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Relationship between increased crop acreage and nonpoint-source pollution: A Georgia case study
JF Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
FD Soil and Water Conservation Society
SP 172
OP 177
VO 36
IS 3
A1 Fred C. White
A1 James R. Hairston
A1 Wesley N. Musser
A1 H. F. Perkins
A1 J. F. Reed
YR 1981
UL http://www.jswconline.org/content/36/3/172.abstract
AB Between 1973 and 1976, favorable crop prices brought 676,000 acres (274,000 hectares) of new cropland into production in Georgia. Each acre of this new cropland, on the average, generated environmental loadings of 4.38 tons of sediment, 7.45 pounds of nitrogen (excluding leaching), and 1.30 pounds of phosphorus. Net farm income on this land increased an estimated $36 per acre a year. Aggregate personal income for the state rose an average of $1.41 for each $1.00 increase in net farm income. From a policy perspective, economic benefits from new cropland must be weighed against increased environmental loadings.