@article{Crutchfield:308264,
      recid = {308264},
      author = {Crutchfield, Stephen R. and Ribaudo, Mark O. and Hansen,  LeRoy T. and Quiroga, Ricardo},
      title = {Cotton Production and Water Quality:  Economic and  Environmental Effects of Pollution Prevention  },
      address = {1992-12},
      number = {1473-2020-1626},
      series = {Agricultural Economic Report No. 664},
      pages = {42},
      year = {1992},
      abstract = {Cotton production, compared with other crops, is less  likely to cause erosion-induced water-quality problems  because cotton acreage is not the major source of erosion  in most regions.  For cotton production, the most  widespread potential damages to water quality are from  nitrates in fertilizer polluting ground water and  pesticides contaminating surface water.  This damage could  be reduced by restricting chemical and fertilizer use on  all cotton production, but doing so could reduce cotton  yields and raise cotton prices.  The same level of water  quality  improvement could be achieved at less cost by  targeting the chemical use or erosion restrictions only to  cotton farms with the most vulnerable soils.  Data come  from a 1989 USDA survey of cotton producers.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/308264},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.308264},
}