Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Burger, W. Loren
Committee Member
Barbour, J. Philip
Committee Member
Riffell, K. Samuel
Committee Member
Martin, W. Steve
Date of Degree
4-30-2011
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Wildlife and Fisheries Science
Degree Name
Master of Science
College
College of Forest Resources
Department
Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Abstract
United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Bill conservation programs provide landowner incentives to remove less productive and environmentally sensitive lands from agricultural production and re-establish them in natural vegetation to achieve conservation objectives. However, removal of arable land from production imposes an opportunity cost associated with loss in revenue from commodities that otherwise would have been produced. The Habitat Buffers for Upland Birds practice (CP-33) under the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program is a targeted conservation practice designed to increase northern bobwhite populations in agricultural landscapes. However, establishing CP-33 buffers on profitable farmland may be incompatible with economic objectives of landowners. To determine how CP-33 enrollment influenced field profitability and bobwhite abundance; I simulated CP-33 buffers on crop fields across a range of commodity prices and modeled profitability and predicted bobwhite abundance. CP-33 increased field revenue on a percentage of fields at all commodity prices and increased bobwhite abundance up to 30%.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/15091
Recommended Citation
McConnell, Mark Dewitt, "Using precision agriculture technology to evaluate environmental and economic tradeoffs of alternative CP-33 enrollments" (2011). Theses and Dissertations. 4903.
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