Ecological Impacts of Federal Conservation and Cropland Reduction Programs

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September 16, 1990
Task Force Report

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62300/rfagt759

Task Force Chairs

John R. Abernathy

Texas A&M Research and Extension Center

Authors

Thomas L. Archer

Texas Agricultural Experiment Station

James L. Barrentine

Lilly Research Laboratories

John R. Barrett

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Purdue University

Thomas E. Bedell

Department of Rangeland Resources, Oregon State University

Evert K. Byington

Winrock International

Alan G. Dexter

Department of Crop and Weed Science, North Dakota State University

Jerry D. Doll

Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin

Allen L. Farris

Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Robert E. Frans

Department of Agronomy, University of Arkansas

Ellery L. Knake

Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois

Homer M. LeBaron

CIBA-GEIGY Corporation

Dean L. Linscott

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Agronomy, Cornell University

Robert J. Moulton

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service

Ted L. Napier

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University

James V. Parochetti

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research Service

F. W. (Bill) Plapp

Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University

Alan Randall

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University

Jerry C. Ritchie

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology Laboratory

Ann Y. Robinson

The Izaak Walton League of America

James H. Spitz

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary

Barry G. Swanson

Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Washington State University

A. Douglas Worsham

Crop Science Department, North Carolina State University,

Abstract

Addresses the ecological implications of several programs established in the 1985 Food Security Act, including the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Sodbuster, Swampbuster, Conservation Compliance, and Acreage Reduction Program (ARP). The authors include persons with expertise in many disciplines.

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