Date of Award
8-28-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Agriculture, MSA
First Advisor
Aaron Shew
Committee Members
GwanSeon Kim; John Nowlin; Steven Green
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2021 K56
Abstract
The USDA NRCS provides technical and financial assistance to support farmers and landowners who implement conservation practices through land retirement and cost-share programs. We analyze NRCS cost-shared conservation activities in Arkansas to determine what has been conducted, when it occurred, and what may have led to the adoption of these conservation practices. We investigate temporal trends in conservation adoption based on changes following the 2002 Farm Bill using regression analysis and evaluate spatial hotspots at the HUC-12 watershed scale using the Getis-Ord Gi*. Results suggest that conservation adoption differs regionally by practice type and land use category, and adoptions increase substantially after the 2002 Farm Bill likely due to increased funding. The hotspot analysis indicates adoption became more concentrated in the Delta and Grand Prairie regions for consecutive Farm Bills. Overall, results inform policy decisions by enabling direct financial and personnel allocations where current gaps in conservation exist.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
King, Samuel Edward, "A Study of Adoption and Costs of NRCS Avoid, Control, And Trap (Act) Agricultural Conservation Practices in Arkansas" (2021). Student Theses and Dissertations. 321.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/321
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