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Objective: To assess the environmental health of midwestern agriculture and the consequences of alternative agricultural and environmental management policies for environmental quality.

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Optimal Placement of Conservation Practices Using Genetic Algorithm with SWAT
Manoj Jha, Sergey Rabotyagov, Philip W. Gassman
[09-WP 496]

Land Retirement Program Design in the Presence of Crop Insurance Subsidies
David A. Hennessy
[09-WP 495]

Agricultural Policy Environmental EXtender (APEX) Model: An Emerging Tool for Landscape and Watershed Environmental Analyses, The
Philip W. Gassman, Jimmy R. Williams, Xiuying Wang, Ali Saleh, Edward Osei, Larry M. Hauck, R. César Izaurralde, Joan D. Flowers
[09-TR 49]

Comparison of Land Use Area Estimates from Three Different Data Sources for the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Chinnasamy Santhi, Philip W. Gassman, Silvia Secchi, Raghavan Srinivasan
[08-TR 48]

Impact of High Crop Prices on Environmental Quality: A Case of Iowa and the Conservation Reserve Program
Silvia Secchi, Bruce A. Babcock
[07-WP 447]

Green Payments and Dual Policy Goals
Hongli Feng
[02-WP 304] (Revised)

Soil and Water Assessment Tool: Historical Development, Applications, and Future Research Directions, The
Philip W. Gassman, Manuel R. Reyes, Colleen H. Green, Jeffrey G. Arnold
[07-WP 443]

Water Quality Modeling for the Raccoon River Watershed Using SWAT
Manoj Jha, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Philip W. Gassman
[06-WP 428]

Production and Abatement Distortions under Noisy Green Taxes
Hongli Feng, David A. Hennessy
[05-WP 409]

Conservation Reserve Program in the Presence of a Working Land Alternative: Implications for Environmental Quality, Program Participation, and Income Transfer, The
Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Silvia Secchi, Philip W. Gassman
[05-WP 402]

Historical Development and Applications of the EPIC and APEX Models
Philip W. Gassman, Jimmy R. Williams, Verel W. Benson, R. César Izaurralde, Larry M. Hauck, C. Allan Jones, Jay D. Atwood, James Kiniry, Joan D. Flowers
[05-WP 397]

Consequences of Co-benefits for the Efficient Design of Carbon Sequestration Programs, The
Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling
[05-WP 390]

Designation of Co-benefits and Its Implication for Policy: Water Quality versus Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils, The
Silvia Secchi, Manoj Jha, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Hongli Feng, Philip W. Gassman, Catherine L. Kling
[05-WP 389]

Carbon Sequestration, Co-Benefits, and Conservation Programs
Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling, Philip W. Gassman
[04-WP 379]

Environmental Conservation in Agriculture: Land Retirement versus Changing Practices on Working Land
Hongli Feng, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Catherine L. Kling, Philip W. Gassman
[04-WP 365]

Subsidies! The Other Incentive-Based Instrument: The Case of the Conservation Reserve Program
Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Silvia Secchi
[03-WP 345]

Alternative Green Payment Policies under Heterogeneity When Multiple Benefits Matter
Jinhua Zhao, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova
[03-WP 341]

Institutions and the Value of Nonpoint Source Measurement Technology: Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils
Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Catherine L. Kling, Jinhua Zhao
[03-WP 338]

Assessing the Costs and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Land Use Changes: A Site-Specific, Policy-Scale Modeling Approach.
JunJie Wu, Richard M. Adams, Catherine L. Kling, Katsuya Tanaka
[03-WP 330]

Regional Estimation of Soil Carbon and Other Environmental Indicators Using EPIC and i_EPIC
Philip W. Gassman, Todd Campbell, R. César Izaurralde, Allison M. Thomson, Jay D. Atwood
[03-TR 46]

Green Subsidies in Agriculture: Estimating the Adoption Costs of Conservation Tillage from Observed Behavior (Revised)
Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Catherine L. Kling, Jinhua Zhao
[01-WP 286] (Revised)

Multiple Benefits of Carbon-Friendly Agricultural Practices: Empirical Assessment of Conservation Tillage
Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Catherine L. Kling, Jinhua Zhao
[03-WP 326]

Cost of Agricultural Carbon Savings, The
Uwe A. Schneider
[02-WP 306]

Potential of U.S. Agriculture and Forestry to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Agricultural Sector Analysis, The
Uwe A. Schneider, Bruce A. McCarl
[02-WP 300]

Harvesting the Greenhouse through Altered Land Management: Economic Potential and Market Design Challenges
Uwe A. Schneider, Bruce A. McCarl, Richard Woodward
[01-WP 288]

Greenhouse Gas Mitigation through Energy Crops in the United States with Implications for Asian-Pacific Countries
Uwe A. Schneider, Bruce A. McCarl
[01-WP 274]

Influences of Permanence on the Comparative Value of Biological Sequestration versus Emissions Offsets
Bruce A. McCarl, Brian C. Murray, Uwe A. Schneider
[01-WP 282]

Economic Potential of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions: Comparative Role for Soil Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry
Uwe A. Schneider, Bruce A. McCarl, Brian C. Murray, Jimmy R. Williams, Ronald D. Sands
[01-WP 281]

Economic Potential of Biomass-Based Fuels for Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation
Uwe A. Schneider, Bruce A. McCarl
[01-WP 280]

Effects of Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation Policies: The Role of International Trade
Uwe A. Schneider, Heng-Chi Lee, Bruce A. McCarl, Chi-Chung Chen
[01-WP 279]

Conservation Payments: Challenges in Design and Implementation
Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Michael D. Duffy, Hongli Feng, Brent Hueth, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Uwe A. Schneider, Silvia Secchi, Quinn Weninger, Jinhua Zhao
[01-BP 34]

Efficiency of Sequestering Carbon in Agricultural Soils, The
Gregory R. Pautsch, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Bruce A. Babcock, Catherine L. Kling
[00-WP 246]

Evaluation of EPIC for Three Minnesota Cropping Systems
S. W. Chung, Philip W. Gassman, D. R. Huggins, G. W. Randall
[00-WP 240]

Environmental and Distributional Impacts of Conservation Targeting Strategies
JunJie Wu, David Zilberman, Bruce A. Babcock
[99-WP 230]

Validation of EPIC for Two Watersheds in Southwest Iowa
S. W. Chung, Philip W. Gassman, L. A. Kramer, Jimmy R. Williams, Roy Gu
[99-WP 215]

Sampling Schemes for Policy Analyses Using Computer Simulation Experiments
Alicia L. Carriquiry, F. Jay Breidt, P. G. Lakshminarayan
[97-WP 184]

Cost of Production System Budgets
Paul D. Mitchell
[97-TR 37]

Impact of Soil Conservation Policies on Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils of the Central United States, The
Paul D. Mitchell, P. G. Lakshminarayan, Toshitsugu Otake, Bruce A. Babcock
[96-WP 170]

Waterfowl Populations and the Conservation Reserve Program in the Prairie Pothole Region of North and South Dakota
Terrance M. Hurley, Bruce A. Babcock, Ronald E. Reynolds, Charles R. Loesch
[96-WP 165]

Choice of Tillage, Rotation, and Soil Testing Practices: Economic and Environmental Implications, The
JunJie Wu, Bruce A. Babcock, P. G. Lakshminarayan
[96-WP 161]

Tradeoffs in Balancing Multiple Objectives of An Integrated Agricultural Economic and Environmental System
P. G. Lakshminarayan
[96-M 8]

Adaptation of the Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Model to Lithuania, An
Antanas Sigitas Sileika
[96-BB 2]

CRP Targeting for Wildlife Habitat: A New Indicator Using the 1992 National Resources Inventory
P. G. Lakshminarayan, Bruce A. Babcock, Robert Kellogg
[96-WP 150]

Temporal and Spatial Evaluation of Soil Conservation Policies
P. G. Lakshminarayan, Bruce A. Babcock
[96-WP 149]

Program Participation and Farm-Level Adoption of Conservation Tillage: Estimates from a Multinomial Logit Model
Bruce A. Babcock, Nabil M. Chaherli, P. G. Lakshminarayan
[95-WP 136]

Optimal Design of a Voluntary Green Payment Program Under Asymmetric Information
JunJie Wu, Bruce A. Babcock
[95-WP 131]

Economic, Environmental, and Fiscal Impacts of a Targeted Renewal of Conservation Reserve Program Contracts, The
Bruce A. Babcock, P. G. Lakshminarayan, JunJie Wu
[95-WP 129]

CEEPES Evaluation of Sustainable Agricultural Policies for Iowa's MSEA Site, Walnut Creek, A
P. G. Lakshminarayan, Aziz Bouzaher, Stanley R. Johnson
[94-WP 126]

Long-Term Economic Consequences of Alternative Carbon Reducing Conservation and Wetlands Reserve Programs: A BLS Analysis
Randall Reese, Aziz Bouzaher, Jason F. Shogren
[93-WP 114]

Economic and Resource Impacts of Policies to Increase Organic Carbon in Agricultural Soils
Aziz Bouzaher, Derald Holtkamp, Randall Reese, Jason F. Shogren
[93-WP 105]

Metamodels and Nonpoint Pollution Policy in Agriculture
Aziz Bouzaher, Richard Cabe, Alicia L. Carriquiry, Philip W. Gassman, P. G. Lakshminarayan, Jason F. Shogren
[92-WP 97]

Efficient Algorithm for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Problems
Aziz Bouzaher, John B. Braden, Gary V. Johnson, Susan E. Murley
[91-WP 78]

1989 Recommended Pesticide and Nitrogen Use Survey: Description and Policy Applications, The
Leland Thompson, Jay D. Atwood, P. G. Lakshminarayan, Jason F. Shogren, Stanley R. Johnson
[91-TR 19]

Compromise Solution for Economic-Environmental Decisions in Agriculture
P. G. Lakshminarayan, Jay D. Atwood, Stanley R. Johnson, Vince A. Sposito
[91-WP 72]

Analysis of 1990 Farm Bill Conservation Options
Jay D. Atwood, Stanley R. Johnson, Jason F. Shogren, Leland Thompson
[90-SR 43]

Natural Resource Accounting Systems and Environmental Policy Modeling
Richard Cabe, Stanley R. Johnson
[90-WP 65]

Trade-Offs Between Agricultural and Chemical Policy
Stanley R. Johnson
[90-WP 54]

National and Regional Implications of Targeting the Conservation Reserve
Klaus Frohberg, Doug Haney, Matthew T. Holt, Derald Holtkamp, Stanley R. Johnson, William H. Meyers, Leland Thompson, Greg Traxler, Patrick C. Westhoff
[89-SR 39]

National and Regional Implications of Conservation Compliance
Jay D. Atwood, Klaus Frohberg, Stanley R. Johnson, Thyrele Robertson, Leland Thompson
[89-SR 38]

Resource Conservation Act Analysis: A Documentation of the Endogenous and Exogenous Livestock Sectors of the Agricultural Resource Interregional Modeling System
Burton C. English, W. Terry Disney, Stanley Schraufnagel
[89-TR 12]

Conservation Reserve and Conservation Compliance Programs: Implications for Resource Adjustment
William H. Meyers, Leland Thompson, Patrick C. Westhoff
[89-WP 45]

Conservation Reserve: A Preliminary Assessment of Short-Term Impacts, The
David E. Ervin, Burton C. English, Stanley R. Johnson
[86-SR 5]

Assumptions in the Crop Sector: A Review
Burton C. English
[85-WP 1]

Terracing Economics on Iowa Soils
Burton C. English, David R. Krog
[84-WP 4]

CARD/RCA Water Sector Model, The
Elwin G. Smith, LeRoy T. Hansen, Burton C. English, Sherry Wise
[84-WP 1]

Proposed Methodology for Structuring an Endogenous Grazing Sector for the CARD-RCA Model, A
Burton C. English, Pradeep Sircar
[83-WP 9]

Water Sector for the CARD/RCA 85 Model, The
Burton C. English, Elwin G. Smith, LeRoy T. Hansen, Sherry Wise
[83-WP 6]

Information for Conservation Decisions: The IIASA Approach
James A. Langley, Earl O. Heady, Burton C. English
[83-WP 4]

Testimony of Burton C. English before the Joint Economic Committee and the Agriculture Subcommittee in Washington, D.C.
Burton C. English, Elwin G. Smith, LeRoy T. Hansen, Sherry Wise
[83-WP 5]

Conceptual Framework from which a Range Sector is Developed, A
Pradeep Sircar, Burton C. English
[82-WP 2]