Land-Use, Crop Choice, and Proximity to Ethanol Plants

Park, Junpyo; Anderson, John E.; Thompson, Eric C.

doi:10.3390/land8080118

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“…In this paper, AEE, as an explanatory variable, comprehensively reflects the coordinated and win-win relationship between the agricultural economy, resource utilization and environmental protection, and reflects the level of agricultural sustainable development. The agriculture here refers to the cropping industry in a narrow sense, and the measurement method is the super-efficiency SBM model based on undesired output (TONE, 2002;PARK, 2019;LIU & WANG, 2020). The construction of the AEE evaluation index system refers to relevant literature (TONE, 2004;WANG & ZHANG, 2016), combines the availability of data and the consistency of statistical calibers, and is based on the input of factors in the process of agricultural production, agricultural output and ecological environment impact.…”

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The impact of agricultural comprehensive development on agro-ecological efficiency of China - evidence from perspective of scale and structure

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Promoting the agricultural sustainable development is one of the core objectives of agricultural comprehensive development (ACD), and the core of agricultural sustainable development lies in enhancing agro-ecological efficiency (AEE). Based on inter-provincial panel data from 2003-2017, the AEE was measured by a unexpected super-efficient SBM model. From the perspective of investment scale and investment structure, the impact of investment scale in ACD on AEE was examined using a panel econometric model, then characterizing the investment structure by the proportion of government funds in the investment of ACD, examining the non-linear relationship between investment structure of ACD and AEE seeking a reasonable proportion of government expenditure. Finally, a spatial econometric model was constructed to test the spatial spillover effect of the scale and structure of investment in ACD on AEE. Results showed that: (i) AEE of China is on the rise overall, but the efficiency level is still low and there is large scope for improvement. (ii) Due to the inefficient use of funds and the lag in the transformation of agricultural benefits, the scale of investment in ACD has a significant negative impact on AEE in the current period. (iii) The impact of investment structure of ACD on AEE presents a significant “inverted N” relationship, and the optimal proportion of government fund investment structure is 76.71%. The reasonable structure of investment in ACD at different food functional areas shows differences. (iv) After considering the spatial effect, the impact of ACD remains robust, but the spatial spillover effect prolongs the time lag of this impact of investment scale and starts to have a positive impact in the 2nd year after the investment. Guarantee the investment scale in ACD, reduce financial redundancy, establish a cooperation mechanism between ACD and agricultural ecological protection in neighboring areas, and increase the introduction of private capital can achieve sustainable development of agricultural economy.

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The impact of agricultural comprehensive development on agro-ecological efficiency of China - evidence from perspective of scale and structure

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Interactions between U.S. biofuels policy and the Endangered Species Act

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2023

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Innovations through crop switching happen on the diverse margins of US agriculture

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et al. 2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Crop switching, in which farmers grow a crop that is novel to a given field, can help agricultural systems adapt to changing environmental, cultural, and market forces. Yet while regional crop production trends receive significant attention, relatively little is known about the local-scale crop switching that underlies these macrotrends. We characterized local crop-switching patterns across the United States using the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cropland Data Layer, an annual time series of high resolution (30 m pixel size) remote-sensed cropland data from 2008 to 2022. We found that at multiple spatial scales, crop switching was most common in sparsely cultivated landscapes and in landscapes with high crop diversity, whereas it was low in homogeneous, highly agricultural areas such as the Midwestern corn belt, suggesting a number of potential social and economic mechanisms influencing farmers’ crop choices. Crop-switching rates were high overall, occurring on more than 6% of all US cropland in the average year. Applying a framework that classified crop switches based on their temporal novelty (crop introduction versus discontinuation), spatial novelty (locally divergent versus convergent switching), and categorical novelty (transformative versus incremental switching), we found distinct spatial patterns for these three novelty dimensions, indicating a dynamic and multifaceted set of cropping changes across US farms. Collectively, these results suggest that innovation through crop switching is playing out very differently in various parts of the country, with potentially significant implications for the resilience of agricultural systems to changes in climate and other systemic trends.

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Land-Use, Crop Choice, and Proximity to Ethanol Plants

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

The impact of agricultural comprehensive development on agro-ecological efficiency of China - evidence from perspective of scale and structure

The impact of agricultural comprehensive development on agro-ecological efficiency of China - evidence from perspective of scale and structure

Interactions between U.S. biofuels policy and the Endangered Species Act

Innovations through crop switching happen on the diverse margins of US agriculture

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