@article{Sun:198206,
      recid = {198206},
      author = {Sun, Henglun and Houston, Jack},
      title = {Economic Analysis of Best Management Practices in a Pilot  Cost-Sharing Water Quality Program},
      address = {1997},
      number = {1000-2016-78072},
      pages = {10},
      year = {1997},
      abstract = {Simulated crop growth and nonpoint pollution yields under  stochastic weather conditions
generated farmers' expected  net returns and the environmental effects of implementing  'Best Management
Practices' (BMPs) under risky and  uncertain conditions. Results from varying nitrogen  fertilizer and
irrigation management levels over a growing  season show that, for production-optimal levels of  nitrogen
fertilization and irrigation without regard to  pollution, nitrogen leaching is more serious, but soil loss  and
nitrogen runoff are lower, than for other scenarios  tested. Voluntary implementation of BMPs to reduce
levels  of inputs and decrease water quality impacts would require  substantial cost-sharing incentives.
Farmers favour a  cost-sharing program, with 87 percent willing to  participate when government's costshare
is at the 80  percent level. When tight budgets restrict implementation  of stricter pollution targets, a
20 percent cost-sharing  would induce 27 percent of the farmers surveyed to  voluntarily select BMPs.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/198206},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.198206},
}