Farm Production Decisions Under Cross and Conservation Compliance
用混合整数规划分析北卡罗来纳州17个农场的调查数据，发现商品计划中的交叉合规会大幅增加土壤侵蚀，而保护合规在高参与率下能显著减少侵蚀，其盈利性受农场面积和产量影响。
Abstract The success of soil conservation compliance (CC) hinges on participation in commodity programs. Using mixed integer programming, the profitability of participation in commodity programs was examined on seventeen surveyed North Carolina farms. Without CC, cross compliance in commodity programs increased projected soil erosion by over 80% when participation increased from 30% to nearly 90%. With CC, erosion fell by two‐thirds at the high participation level but decreased by only 1% with low participation. Individual farm acreage base and crop yield strongly affected the profitability of CC. Compliance is increasingly profitable on farms with more base acreage and higher yields.