United States Farm Commodity Programs and Land Use

We estimate the impact of government payments on United States land use, using county-level data from the National Resources Inventory and the Census of Agriculture in 1987, 1992, and 1997. Although payments were made under decoupled support programs, effects on land use are found to be significant....

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of agricultural economics 2010-04, Vol.92 (3), p.803-820
Hauptverfasser:	Gardner, Bruce, Hardie, Ian, Parks, Peter J.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agricultural commodities Agricultural economics Agricultural land Agricultural land use Agricultural policy Agricultural subsidies Crop prospects Crop yield cropland Crops Farm commodities Farmlands federal farm subsidies forestland Forests Government payments Government policy Impact analysis instrumental variables Land economics Land market Land policy Land use land use response pasture Pastures Payments Q15 Q18 range Rangelands Studies Subsidies U.S.A United States
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Zusammenfassung:	We estimate the impact of government payments on United States land use, using county-level data from the National Resources Inventory and the Census of Agriculture in 1987, 1992, and 1997. Although payments were made under decoupled support programs, effects on land use are found to be significant. On average for the years studied, our simulations indicate that United States cropland acreage would have been 89 million acres (22%) less if program payments had been reduced to half their observed level (holding market prices of commodities constant). Percentage reductions are largest in marginal crop producing areas of the nation.
ISSN:	0002-9092 1467-8276
DOI:	10.1093/ajae/aap039