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Abstract
About 76 percent of total Federal expenditures in cost-sharing under the Great Plains Conservation Program during 1958-66 was in support of eight practices; namely, (1) conversion of cropland to grass (14.6 percent), (2) controlling competitive shrubs on rangeland (12.0 percent), (3) constructing or improving ponds (10.4 percent), (4) constructing terraces (10.4 percent) , (5) reseeding rangeland (9.2 percent), (6) constructing wells (7.6 percent), (7) reorganizing irrigation systems (6.4 percent), and (8) leveling land for irrigation (5.3 percent). The remaining 24 percent of Federal expenditures was scattered among 16 other practices. Frequency of participation in the program was highest for operators of the larger farms who were full owners and had the higher income and educational levels. The community effects of the program amounted to less than 1 percent of community personal income.