A carrot-and-stick approach to environmental improvement: Marrying agri-environmental payments and water quality regulations

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-104

  Johansson, Robert C ^a   Kaplan, Jonathan D ^b  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agri environmental programs; Agricultural sector simulation; Manure nutrients; Water quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 8344252087     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500005669     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Barnard, C., S. Daberkow, M. Padgitt, M. E. Smith, and N. D. Uri. (1997). "Alternative Measures of Pesticide Use." Science of the Total Environment 203, 229-244.
2. Berck, P., and S. Hoffman. (2002). "Assessing the Employment Impacts of Environmental and Natural Resource Policy." Environmental and Resource Economics 22, 133-156.
3. Borton, L. R., C. A. Rotz, H. L. Person, T. M. Harrigan, and W. G. Bickert. (1995). "Simulation to Evaluate Dairy Manure Systems." Applied Engineering in Agriculture 11(2), 301-310.
4. Claassen, R., R. E. Heimlich, R. M. House, and K. D. Wiebe. (1998). "Estimating the Effects of Relaxing Agricultural Land Use Restrictions: Wetland Delineation in the Swampbuster Program." Review of Agricultural Economics 20, 390-405.
5. Cooper, J. C., and R. W. Keim. (1996). "Incentive Payments to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Water Quality Protection Practices." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78(1), 54-64.
6. Fleming, R., B. Babcock, and E. Wang. (1998). "Resource or Waste? The Economics of Swine Manure Storage and Management." Review of Agricultural Economics 20(1), 96-113.
7. Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI). (2001, July). "FAPRI's Analysis of the EPA's Proposed CAFO Regulations." FAPRI-UMC Report No. 06-01, University of Missouri, Columbia.
8. Giannakas, K., and J. Kaplan. (2001, August). "(Non)Compliance with Agricultural Conservation Programs: Theory and Evidence." Selected paper presented at annual meetings of the AAEA, Chicago, IL.
9. Gollehon, N., M. Caswell, M. Ribaudo, R. Kellogg, C. Lander, and D. Letson. (2001). "Confined Animal Production and Manure Nutrients." Agriculture Information Bull. No. 771, USDA/Economic Research Service, Washington, DC.
10. Greenhalgh, S., and A. Sauer. (2003, February). "Awakening the Dead Zone: An Investment for Agriculture, Water Quality, and Climate Change." Issue Brief, World Resources Institute, Washington, DC.
11. Horan, R. D., and R. Claassen. (2001). "The Welfare Sensitivity of Agri-Environmental Instruments." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 26(2), 368-386.
12. Horan, R. D., J. Shortle, and D. Abler. (2003, June). "Coordination of Point-Nonpoint Trading Programs and Agri-Environmental Policies." Selected paper presented at the NAREA Workshop on Linkages Between Agricultural and Conservation Policy, Portsmouth, NH.
13. House, R. M., H. McDowell, M. Peters, and R. Heimlich. (2000). "Agriculture Sector Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis: An Economic and Biophysical Approach." In V. Barnett (ed.), Environmental Statistics: Analyzing Data for Environmental Policy. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
14. Kaplan, J. D., R. C. Johansson, and M. A. Peters. (2003). "National Analysis: Industry Effects of Manure Management" In Manure Management for Water Quality Improvements: Cost of Land Applying Nutrients from Animal Feeding Operations (pp. 62-81). Agricultural Economics Report No. 824, USDA/Economic Research Service, Washington, DC.
15. Kellogg, R. L., C. H. Lander, D. C. Moffitt, and N. Gollehon. (2000). Manure Nutrients Relative to the Capacity of Cropland and Pastureland to Assimilate Nutrients: Spatial and Temporal Trends for the United States. USDA/Natural Resources Conservation Service and Economic Research Service, Washington, DC.
16. McDowell, H., R. Kramer, A. Randall, and M. Price. (1989). "An Analysis of U.S. Farm Income Policies: Historical, Market-Determined, and Sector-Wide Stabilization." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 21(2), 1-11.
17. Mitchell, G., R. H. Griggs, V. Benson, and J. Williams. (1998, September). "Environmental Policy Integrated Climate Model (EPIC)." Online. Available at http://www.brc.tamus. edu/epic/.
18. Pease, J., B. A. Pelletier, and D. Kenyon. (2001, January). "Poultry Litter Transport Alternatives for Land Application in Virginia." Selected paper presented at annual meetings of the SAEA, Ft. Worth, TX.
19. Peters, M., J. Lewandrowski, R. House, and H. McDowell. (2001). "Economic Impacts of Carbon Charges on U.S. Agriculture." Climatic Change 50, 445-473.
20. Ribaudo, M., N. Gollehon, and J. Agapoff. (2003). "Land Application of Manure by Animal Feeding Operations: Is More Land Needed?" Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 58, 30-38.
21. Ribaudo, M., R. Heimlich, R. Claassen, and M. Peters. (2001). "Least-Cost Management of Nonpoint Source Pollution: Source Reduction vs. Interception Strategies for Controlling Nitrogen Loss in the Mississippi Basin." Ecological Economics 37, 183-197.
22. Risse, L. M., M. L. Cabrerea, A. J. Franzluebbers, J. W. Gaskin, J. E. Gilley, R. Killorn, D. E. Radcliffe, W. E. Tollner, and H. Zhang. (2001). "Land Application of Manure for Beneficial Reuse." White paper, National Center for Manure and Animal Waste Management, Ames, IA.
23. Smith, R. A., G. E. Schwarz, and R. B. Alexander. (1997). "Regional Interpretation of Water-Quality Monitoring Data." Water Resources Research 33, 2781-2798.
24. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. (2003). Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators. Agricultural Handbook No. AH722, USDA/ERS, Washington, DC.
25. U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (1999). "Unified National Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations." USDA/EPA joint policy statement, Washington, DC. Online. Available at http://www.epa.gov/ npdes/pubs/finafost.pdf.
26. U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service. (1999, March). 1997 Census of Agriculture. Pub. No. AC97-A-51, USDA/NASS, Washington, DC. Online. Available at http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/.
27. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. (2002). "Fact Sheet: Environmental Quality Incentives Program." USDA/NRCS, Washington, DC. Online. Available at http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/ CCS/FB96OPA/ eqipfact.html.
28. _. (2003). "Costs Associated with Development and Implementation of Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans." USDA/NRCS report, Washington, DC.
29. U.S. Department of Agriculture, World Agricultural Outlook Board. (2001). "USDA Agricultural Baseline Projections to 2010." Staff Report No. WAOB-2001-1, USDA, Office of the Chief Economist, Washington, DC.
30. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (2001). "Environmental and Economic Benefit Analysis of Proposed Revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Regulation and the Effluent Guidelines for Animal Feeding Operation." Report No. EPA-821-R-01-002, Office of Water, Washington, DC.
31. _. (2002a). 2000 National Water Quality Inventory. Report No. EPA-841-R-02-001, Office of Water, Washington, DC.
32. _. (2002b). "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) - Final Rule." Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Online. Available at http://cfpub.epa.gov/ npdes/afo/cafofinalrule.cfm.