Cross‐Compliance as a Soil Conservation Strategy: A Case Study
估算田纳西州吉布森县76位农民参与假设的交叉合规项目的财务影响，比较联邦项目收益与实现不同土壤流失限制的最低成本，发现成本分摊下农民有激励参与。
Abstract The financial impacts of a hypothetical cross‐compliance program were estimated for seventy‐six farmers in Gibson County, Tennessee. Several federal program benefits were compared to the least‐cost method of achieving one of four different soil displacement limits to determine if the costs of voluntarily participating in a cross‐compliance program were greater than the benefits. If cost‐sharing were available, farmers would have a positive incentive to cross comply to 5 tons per acre per year on 57.3 percent of all fields. This figure rises to 90.9 percent compliance at 20 tons per acre per year.