Premium
The Welfare Effects of Erosion Controls, Banning Pesticides, and Limiting Fertilizer Application in the Corn Belt
Author(s) -
Taylor C. Robert,
Frohberg Klaus K.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1239606
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , limiting , welfare , production (economics) , fertilizer , agricultural economics , pesticide , environmental science , enforcement , pasture , agronomy , economics , natural resource economics , agricultural science , business , ecology , biology , mechanical engineering , social science , sociology , engineering , market economy , macroeconomics
The partial welfare effects of alternative erosion control methods, banning insecticides, banning herbicides, and limiting nitrogen fertilizer in the Corn Belt are examined. The estimated welfare effects are partial since they reflect the change in consumers' plus producers' surplus arising from the production and consumption of corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, hay, and pasture but not the environmental benefits associated with pollution abatement or the administrative and enforcement cost of the policies. A large linear programming model of crop production in the Corn Belt was used to make the estimates.