Our understanding of farm-level conservation behavior is weak. Study after study fails to
provide a consistent explanation of why some farmers practice conservation and others do …

SOIL conservation issues resurfaced in the United States during the 1970s when crop
acreage expanded by more than 20 percent to meet a 132 percent rise in agricultural …

This thesis explores factors that determine whether producers choose to conserve soil and
water. A mail questionnaire was issued to producers in Nemaha County, Kansas. The …

AS the 1985 Food Security Act enters its third troubled year on the books, hardly any part of
this sweeping change in American farm policy can be said to be settled public policy. Most …

HE ink has barely dried on conservation plans developed by farm managers in cooperation
with the Soil Conser-T vation Service (SCS). Farm managers are implementing conservation …

Nowhere in the world spends more on soil conservation than the United States. Generous
investments in subsidies and technical assistance were born of the 1930's when giant dust …

A s global demand for food and fuel grows, the potential tradeoff between agricultural
production and environmental quality has renewed urgency. While grain and soybean …

Salary and research support that made this chapter possible were provided by the Ohio
Agricultural Research and Development Center of the Ohio State University and the …

SOIL conservation policy in the United States is in a process of ferment. Farmers, ranchers,
researchers, government officials, and politicians are all groping for policies that will improve …

WITH passage of the new farm bill, the Food Security Act of 1985, Congress and the Reagan
Administration put into place the most innovative group of soil conservation measures since …