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| Title: | MARGINAL ABATEMENT COSTS OF REDUCING GROUNDWATER-N POLLUTION WITH INTENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE FARM MANAGEMENT CHOICES |
| Authors: | Yiridoe, Emmanuel K.
Weersink, Alfons |
| Issue Date: | 1998-10 |
| Abstract: | Cost-effectiveness is an important consideration in evaluating choices for meeting environmental quality objectives. Estimated crop yield response functions and the associated groundwater-nitrate pollution production functions were used to evaluate the optimal N fertilization and on-farm abatement costs for alternative cropping systems, with management choices at both the intensive and extensive margins. The cost-effective corn production system, which meets the Health Canada standard for nitrates with the highest returns ($278 ha-1) and lowest on-farm abatement cost ($248 ha-1), was a four-year corn-corn-soybean-wheat rotation under conventional tillage. At contaminant limits above the Health Canada standard, the cost-effective wheat cropping system shifted from a soybean-wheat rotation under no-tillage to a corn-soybean-wheat rotation under no-tillage. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/31515 |
| Institution/Association: | Agricultural and Resource Economics Review>Volume 27, Number 2, October 1998 |
| Total Pages: | 17 |
| Language: | English |
| From Page: | 169 |
| To Page: | 185 |
| Collections: | Volume 27, Number 2, October 1998
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