Counties employing the variable cost-share option within the Agricultural Conservation
Program were compared with those employing uniform-rate cost-sharing in West Tennessee …

BACKGROUND Public policy for erosion control is aimed at reducing erosion rates to soil
loss tolerances or T values. T values are defined as" the max-imum rate of annual soil loss …

The paper develops a cost sharing methodology for the USA that reflects the need to
achieve a high level of erosion control and a corresponding decrease in sedimentation …

The existence of environmental and conservation problems which reduce the productivity of
water and land resources or degrade the environment had been a concern of the US …

Public and private expenditures for agricultural conservation in general and for soil erosion
control in particular are developed from agency reports, other secondary materials, and farm …

ECONOMIC information, to be useful, must be applicable to conservation decisions made by
individuals at the farm level. Among the important conservation questions farm owners' and …

The conservation practices involved included cover crop, contour farming, dam, diversion,
irrigation water management, permanent vegetative cover, sediment retention, strip …

A study was carried out of the economics underlying agricultural nonpoint source pollution in
various Texas watersheds to estimate:(1) the present and potential offsite damages resulting …

The US Department of Agriculture's 1983 Payment-in-Kind and Acreage Reduction Program
reduced soil erosion on the land withdrawn from production by an average of 1.8 tons per …

This paper summarizes the results of several analyses aimed at assessing the economic
impacts of soil erosion control policies. The analyses were carried out with several linear …