TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the Environmental Effects of Agricultural Policy
T2 - The Soil Bank, the CRP, and Airborne Participate Concentrations
AU - Ringquist, Evan J.
AU - Lee, Jeffrey A.
AU - Ervin, R. Terry
PY - 1995/9
Y1 - 1995/9
N2 - The fact that agricultural policy decisions can have important environmental consequences has become common knowledge among policy scholars and policy practitioners. This relationship is reflected in the increasingly prominent soil conservation and environmental protection components of the 1985 and 1990 Farm Bills. In debating the value of continuing these provisions in the upcoming reauthorization of this legislation, scholars and politicians alike focus almost exclusively on their water quality benefits. However, the soil conservation components of agricultural policy also may affect air quality significantly. Using multivariate transfer function analysis, we find that implementation of the 1985 Farm Bill's Conservation Reserve Program has improved air quality significantly in that area of the country most plagued by agricultural air pollution.
AB - The fact that agricultural policy decisions can have important environmental consequences has become common knowledge among policy scholars and policy practitioners. This relationship is reflected in the increasingly prominent soil conservation and environmental protection components of the 1985 and 1990 Farm Bills. In debating the value of continuing these provisions in the upcoming reauthorization of this legislation, scholars and politicians alike focus almost exclusively on their water quality benefits. However, the soil conservation components of agricultural policy also may affect air quality significantly. Using multivariate transfer function analysis, we find that implementation of the 1985 Farm Bill's Conservation Reserve Program has improved air quality significantly in that area of the country most plagued by agricultural air pollution.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1995.tb00527.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1995.tb00527.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0029477490
SN - 0190-292X
VL - 23
SP - 519
EP - 533
JO - Policy Studies Journal
JF - Policy Studies Journal
IS - 3
ER -