PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Wan, Xiaolan
AU  - Howard, Gregory
AU  - Zhang, Wendong
TI  - Enrollment Restrictions and Conservation Practice Adoptions by Midwestern Farmers
AID  - 10.3368/le.101.2.050924-0041R
DP  - 2024 Nov 30
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 050924-0041R
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/11/25/le.101.2.050924-0041R.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/11/25/le.101.2.050924-0041R.full
AB  - Using a mixed-mode survey of 424 farmer respondents in the Boone and North Raccoon River watersheds in Iowa, we examine the influence of enrollment restrictions on farmers’ preferences for conservation practices using a discrete choice experiment and a random parameters logit model. Our findings indicate prospective farmer participants favor conservation contracts with enrollment requirements on new, additional practices. Comparisons with EQIP reveal decreased mean willingness-to-accept for cover crops, no-till, and split nitrogen application contracts—by 55%, 69%, and 52%— with enrollment restrictions, respectively. In addition, participation supply curves also demonstrate higher enrollment, though this is especially true for low compensation levels.