Motivations for Enrollment Into the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in the James River Basin of South Dakota

Pfrimmer, Jarrett D.; Gigliotti, Larry M.; Stafford, Joshua D.; Schumann, David A.; Bertrand, Katie N.

doi:10.1080/10871209.2017.1324069

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“…They also underscored the significance of social media and market share through branding and certification. Research on participation in conservation programs, such as CRP and CREP, generally aligns with Liu et al (2018) and points to gender, attitudes, and experience as key predictors of farmer interest and enrollment (e.g., Pfrimmer et al 2017;Boyer et al 2018), but Armstrong et al (2011) found that contextual factors like politics and property value ultimately are more important when it comes to adoption of cost-share conservation practices.…”

Section: Forest Buffer Adoptionmentioning

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The Effects of Cost-Share Participant Experience on Forest Buffer Retention

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Munsell

Ares

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Small-scale Forestry

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Forest conservation buffers provide ecosystem services such as soil and water conservation, wildlife habitat, and clean air. This research studied the experiences and intentions of participants in forest buffer contract programs in Virginia, USA provided by governmental conservation agencies. These programs offer technical assistance and share costs of establishment and maintenance for a period of time typically between 2 and 15 years. Program participant reflections about their experience and intention to retain their forest buffer after their cost-share contract ends were measured. Two-hundred and fifty-one program participants received a mail survey and 136 were returned (response rate = 54%). Two-step cluster analysis grouped respondents into four participant types based on responses to questions about buffer maintenance and costs, and perceived environmental benefits. Discontented and Doubtful respondents (23.4%) experienced financial and maintenance challenges. They also were doubtful about environmental benefits. Contented and Confident respondents (28.2%) experienced minimal financial and maintenance difficulties, and were confident that their buffers provide environmental benefits. Benefited with Burden respondents (22.6%) also were confident about environmental benefits, but experienced burdensome maintenance and costs. Skeptical without Strife respondents (25.8%) were not convinced their buffers provide environmental benefits, but have not had problems with maintenance or costs. A Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric test (α = 0.05) indicated that Discontented and Doubtful respondents are least likely to retain their buffer after their cost-share contract expires (rank sum = 42.2) and Contented and Confident are most likely (rank sum = 82.8). Benefited with Burden and Skeptical without Strife respondents (rank sum = 59.7 and = 59.8, respectively) were statistically similar to their Discontented and Doubtful counterparts, but slightly more likely to keep their buffer after their contract expires. Overall, Discontented and Doubtful and Benefited with Burden respondents had larger parcels of land and represented the largest percentage of full-time farmers, whereas Contented and Confident and Skeptical without Strife respondents had smaller parcels and were most likely to be part-time farmers or female. Findings suggest distinctions between types are clear along the onus of management, not necessarily perspectives on conservation. The two most influential drivers of program participation were cost-share assistance and water quality, whereas their most important management objective was improving land health.

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Section: Forest Buffer Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effects of Cost-Share Participant Experience on Forest Buffer Retention

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Munsell

Ares

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Small-scale Forestry

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“…Production costs are treated as a time series input, with total costs per hectare for each year represented by one lumped value. Production costs used in this model application include land rent, machinery, labor, crop seed, chemicals, and crop insurance (Plastina, 2017). As estimates put the amount of land rented out in Iowa for farming at 60 %-80 %, it is assumed that all farmer agents rent their land (Plastina et al, 2018;Zhang, 2015).…”

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“…As estimates put the amount of land rented out in Iowa for farming at 60 %-80 %, it is assumed that all farmer agents rent their land (Plastina et al, 2018;Zhang, 2015). This significantly increases expenses as land rental costs account for approximately half of total production costs (Plastina, 2017).…”

Section: Production Costsmentioning

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Linking economic and social factors to peak flows in an agricultural watershed using socio-hydrologic modeling

Dziubanski

Franz

Gutowski

2020

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Hydrologic modeling studies most often represent humans through predefined actions and fail to account for human responses under changing hydrologic conditions. By treating both human and hydrologic systems as co-evolving, we build a socio-hydrological model that combines an agent-based model (ABM) with a semi-distributed hydrologic model. The curve number method is used to clearly illustrate the impacts of land cover changes resulting from decisions made by two different agent types. Aiming to reduce flooding, a city agent pays farmer agents to convert land into conservation. Farmer agents decide how to allocate land between conservation and production based on factors related to profits, past land use, and willingness. The model is implemented for a watershed representative of the mixed agricultural/small urban area land use found in Iowa, USA. In this preliminary study, we simulate scenarios of crop yields, crop prices, and conservation subsidies along with varied farmer parameters that illustrate the effects of human system variables on peak discharges. High corn prices lead to a decrease in conservation land from historical levels; consequently, mean peak discharge increases by 6 %, creating greater potential for downstream flooding within the watershed. However, when corn prices are low and the watershed is characterized by a conservation-minded farmer population, mean peak discharge is reduced by 3 %. Overall, changes in mean peak discharge, which is representative of farmer land use decisions, are most sensitive to changes in crop prices as opposed to yields or conservation subsidies.

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“…; Groeneveld , Naidoo and Ricketts , Groot et al , Lyle et al ). This approach is meritorious and necessary for efficient use of limited government allocated resources, but it does not address return‐on‐investment (ROI) for the agricultural producer, which research shows is the ultimate determining factor in conservation adoption (Pfrimmer et al , Lute et al , Sweikert and Gigliotti ). If generating revenue from alternative land‐use practices (e.g., conservation enrollment) is needed to increase adoption, research addressing the economic outcomes of enrollment is warranted.…”

Section: Economics Of Conservationmentioning

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Bridging the gap between conservation delivery and economics with precision agriculture

McConnell

2019

Wildl. Soc. Bull.

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Agricultural landscapes are important for natural resource conservation, but present numerous obstacles associated with intensive agricultural production. Chief among these challenges is the competing economics outcomes of conservation and crop production. Understanding these outcomes requires quantifying economics of crop production and conservation enrollment. Precision agriculture technology provides a mechanism to address these needs by using advanced technology to quantify spatially explicit profitability in agricultural fields. Precision agriculture's application to conservation planning represents a growing field of research. I present a brief overview of precision agriculture technology and its application in natural resource conservation. I discuss the role precision agriculture can play in United States conservation policy, highlight hindrances to adopting this technology, and provide recommendations for future application. I outline a new approach of targeted conservation delivery that focuses on return on investment to agricultural producers and discuss the role of precision agriculture in this approach. Increased adoption and application of this technology in natural resource conservation will require substantial investment from state wildlife agencies, nongovernmental organizations, farm managers, rural banks, and agricultural companies. Precision agriculture represents the next paradigm shift in natural resource conservation where spatially explicit conservation decisions are made that optimize conservation and profitability to produce environmentally resilient, multifunctional agricultural landscapes.

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Motivations for Enrollment Into the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in the James River Basin of South Dakota

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

The Effects of Cost-Share Participant Experience on Forest Buffer Retention

The Effects of Cost-Share Participant Experience on Forest Buffer Retention

Linking economic and social factors to peak flows in an agricultural watershed using socio-hydrologic modeling

Bridging the gap between conservation delivery and economics with precision agriculture

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