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Soil Erosivity and Crop Yield: Implications of a Land Retirement Program for New York Cropland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Nelson L. Bills
Nelson L. Bills*
Affiliation:
USDA-ERS-NRED stationed at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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Abstract

Policy issues surrounding Federal programs for land retirement as a means of curtailing soil erosion are discussed in this paper. The analysis is structured around productivity differentials observed for New York cropland rated as highly erosive, moderately erosive, or nonerosive.

Keywords

soil erosionsoil productivityland retirement
Type
Research Article
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Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , April 1985 , pp. 57 - 64
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Copyright © 1985 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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