PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Zachary R. Luther AU - Scott M. Swinton AU - Braeden Van Deynze TI - Potential Supply of Midwest Cropland for Conversion to In-Field Prairie Strips AID - 10.3368/le.98.2.082020-0129R1 DP - 2021 Dec 27 TA - Land Economics PG - 082020-0129R1 4099 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/12/15/le.98.2.082020-0129R1.short 4100 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/12/15/le.98.2.082020-0129R1.full AB - Prairie strips planted into crop fields offer multiple environmental benefits. This study estimates the willingness of U.S. farmers to convert 5% of their largest corn-soybean field to prairie strips in exchange for payment. Using stated preference results to estimate land supply, we find that 20% of farmers are willing to adopt prairie strips at payments equivalent to average Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) rental rates, corresponding to potential conversion of 90,000 acres on 1.8m acres of cropland. Farmers are likelier to adopt in smaller fields and when they perceive that prairie strips will benefit environmental quality or agricultural productivity.