Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators: Compliance Provisions for Soil and Wetland Conservation
Roger Claassen
No. (AH722) ,
August 2000
Compliance provisions, first introduced in the 1985 Food Security Act, require certain resource conservation activities in return for benefits from selected Federal agricultural programs. Producers can lose Federal farm program benefits if they produce crops on highly erodible land without applying an approved conservation system or if they convert wetlands for agricultural production. In 1997, approved conservation systems were in effect for more than 95 percent of highly erodible land subject to conservation compliance, reducing erosion by two-thirds on such lands. More than 50 percent of all conservation systems involve conservation cropping sequences, conservation tillage, crop residue use, or a combination of these practices. Given reasonable assumptions about future commodity prices and production costs, compliance mechanisms may also be keeping 6-10 million acres of wetlands and highly erodible land out of crop production.
Keywords: conservation, policy, sodbuster, swampbuster, compliance, soil erosion, wetlands, ERS, USDA
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Chapter 6.3: Compliance Provisions for Soil and Wetland Conservation, 337 kb.
Contents
- Status of Compliance: 1997
- Compliance with HEL provision
- Compliance with wetland provisions
- HEL Conservation Plans and Systems
- Erosion Reduction on HEL
- Future Effectiveness of Compliance
- Value of Benefits
- Costs of Compliance
- Cropland Potential without Compliance
- References
See other chapters in the Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators series.
Updated date: August 22, 2000
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