Abstract
Conservation compliance, enacted as part of the 1985 Food Security Act, required farmers to apply approved conservation systems on highly erodible (HEL) cropland by 1995 or risk loss of all federal agricultural programme payments, including income support. Between 1982 and 1997, the annual rate of cropland soil erosion dropped by nearly 40%. What portion of this drop in cropland soil erosion can be attributed to conservation compliance? We analyse this question using existing data and a new method of linking soil erosion data from the National Resources Inventory (NRI) with data on farm programme participation and payments from the Agricultural Resources Management Survey (ARMS).
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