IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/uwp/landec/v101y2025i2p162-182.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Enrollment Restrictions and Conservation Practice Adoptions by Midwestern Farmers: Survey Evidence from Iowa

Author

Listed:
  • Xiaolan Wan
  • Gregory Howard
  • Wendong Zhang

Abstract

Using a mixed-mode survey of 424 farmer respondents in the Boone and North Raccoon River watersheds in Iowa, we examine the influence of enrollment restrictions on farmers’ preferences for conservation practices using a discrete choice experiment and a random parameters logit model. Our findings indicate prospective farmer participants favor conservation contracts with enrollment requirements on new, additional practices. Comparisons with the Environmental Quality Incentive Program reveal decreased mean willingness to accept values for cover crops, no-till, and split nitrogen application contracts—by 55%, 69%, and 52%—with enrollment restrictions, respectively. In addition, participation supply curves demonstrate higher enrollment, though this is especially true for low compensation levels.

Suggested Citation

  • Xiaolan Wan & Gregory Howard & Wendong Zhang, 2025. "Enrollment Restrictions and Conservation Practice Adoptions by Midwestern Farmers: Survey Evidence from Iowa," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 101(2), pages 162-182.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v101:y:2025:i:2:p:162-182
    Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.101.2.050924-0041R
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://le.uwpress.org/cgi/reprint/101/2/162
    Download Restriction: A subscription is required to access pdf files. Pay per article is available.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v101:y:2025:i:2:p:162-182. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://le.uwpress.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.