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Cost share payment and willingness to participate in Virginia's Pine Bark Beetle Prevention Program
… (NIPF) landowners because of the substantial costs and delayed financial returns involved. Since the benefits to society generated by PCT are not fully realized by the individuals who might implement it, there may be a market externality in which PCT is underprovided across the landscape. The …
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Evaluation of Manure Management Systems (MMS) and Cost-Share Programs for Mitigating Livestock Environmental Impacts
… for implementation and are often incentivized by cost-share programs that assume part of the implementation cost. The objective of Chapter 3 was to quantitatively summarize the literature on GHGe and manure nutrient composition in response to MMS use. Included studies provided data on the …
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Characteristics and Perceptions of Cost-share Funding for Emerald Ash Borer Mitigation in Virginia Urban Areas
Since most invasive forest pests first establish in urban areas, detection and containment of these pests within cities is important to the health of all forests. While the emerald ash borer (EAB) (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) has proved difficult to contain, efforts continue to mitigate the …
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An Assessment of the Quality of Agricultural Best Management Practices in the James River Basin of Virginia
… were developed to address the need for a low cost, rapid method of quantifying the quality of agricultural best management practices (BMPs). Best management practices are either cost-shared, where some or all of the capital costs of the practice were subsidized with federal, state, or local …
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The drivers of retail performance : the true value of online and in-store sales in an evolving retail industry
… have positive correlations to distribution space share, employment efficiency, and spatial efficiency and have negative correlations to total cost share, labor cost share, and space cost share. We also determine that indirect sales and gross margin have no correlation to e-commerce sales and …
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The Influence of Cost-sharing Programs on Southern Non-industrial Private Forests
… levels of funding for government tree planting cost share programs will result in significant reductions in non-industrial private tree planting efforts in the South. The purpose of this study is to quantify how the funding of various cost share programs, and market signals interact and affect …
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Motivation, Challenges, and Farm Resilience: Examining Cover Crop Adoption using a Survey Approach
… by region due to irrigation, farm types, and cost-share program, with the Heartland (10%) and Northern Great Plains/Prairie Gateway (11%) of the additional net returns to farmers for no-till farming practices. Texas, especially South Texas, has low adoption (0.8% of its total cropland) due to …
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Increasing Program Effectiveness Through use of Principles of Andragogy in Tennessee Beef Quality Assurance Programs
… both farmers and the economy. The TAEP is a cost-share system funding over $106 million dollars funding over thirty-seven thousand programs in the agricultural community statewide (Farm Bureau, Tennessee 2019 Resolutions, 2019). The cost-share program aids farmers to begin projects that could …
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Pollutant Monitoring of Effluent Credit Trading Programs For Agricultural Nonpoint Source Control
… characteristics to the current Virginia Cost-Share nonpoint source monitoring program. The goal of this study is to recommend elements of a nonpoint source discharge monitoring strategy to the Commonwealth of Virginia that can be used in a trading program of its own. The study shows that …
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A multiperiod linear programming model of farm growth and bmp adoption in southeastern Virginia
… of model solutions were obtained; one set with cost-share subsidies and the other without. Results indicate that farm growth potential exists with or without cost-share subsidies and that the current high costs of external capital tend farmers toward use of internal financing. The availability …
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Land tenure, agri-environmental policy, and conservation practice use in Iowa
… practices.</p> <p>Chapter 2 examines whether cost-share programs – which pay farmers to use a specific conservation practice – have had the desired effect of increasing cover-crop use in Iowa. Using a matching estimator, I conclude that cost-share recipients plant cover crops on an additional …
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To Till or Not to Till: The Question of Economic Efficiency and Tillage Systems in a Sample of Illinois Grain Farms
… of changes in input expenditures as well as cost share can provide beneficial additional information in planning and budgeting activities. Marketers, confronted with the question of whether or not to segment the farmer's market with respect to tillage practice, might benefit from the analysis …
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Silvopasture interests among livestock producers in Virginia
… adoption are complex. The implementation of a cost-share initiative for silvopasture created by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in Virginia in 2011 provides an opportunity for landowners to establish silvopasture systems on their properties, thus diversifying land management …
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Tax expenditure and tax prices
… Some authors have emphasized the welfare costs of tax expenditures. To the extent that tax expenditures narrow the tax base the introduction or extension of a tax expenditure undoubtedly makes the cost of raising revenue more than it would be otherwise. This kind of cost, denoted as a …
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Factors Affecting the Adoption and Retention of Conservation Buffers
… conservation buffers and incentives offered by cost-share programs, adoption remains low. Typical buffer designs often take arable land out of production. Multifunctional conservation buffers (MCBs) offer an alternative that supports rather than excludes production. By incorporating non-timber …
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Sector-Targeting for Controlling Nutrient Loadings: A Case Study of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River Watershed
… achieve a water quality standard. The economic costs of reducing nutrient loadings are often not taken into account during development. In this study, sector targeting is used to minimize the total cost of nutrient reduction by targeting sectors with lower costs per unit of pollution reduction. …
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Assessing the conservation value and food system impacts of high tunnels
… the Seasonal High Tunnel initiative. This cost-share program provides farmers with a high tunnel intended to encourage the availability of locally grown fresh produce. Using mixed-methods research this thesis examines the social, economic, and conservation impacts of the NRCS high tunnel …
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Essays on the economics of bee-friendly beef
… experiment revealed that producers require cost-share payments to convert pastureland into NWSG-WF systems. For a 10% conversion, producers would accept an average of $134.58 per acre (51% of establishment costs), while increasing conversions to 20% or 30% would raise the required payments …
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Modeling farmer decision-making using an agent-based model for studying best management practice adoption rates: A typological approach
… increase or could be influenced by raising cost share assistance or implementing a fine. The use of the model in expanded research is possible due to a modular design and thorough documentation. The NitroShed model is applicable for further study of farmer decision-making and interfacing …
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BMP Cost and Nutrient Management Effectiveness on Typical Beef and Beef-Poultry Farms in Shenandoah County, Virginia
… allocation, nutrient loss reductions, and the cost efficiency of reducing nutrient losses were analyzed to assess which BMPs are the most cost efficient to implement, assuming the baseline scenarios have no voluntarily applied BMPs. The effects of stacking additional BMPs, in combinations of …
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