Rented farmland: A missing piece of the nutrient management puzzle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin?

Masuda, Yuta J.; Harden, Seth; Ranjan, Pranay; Wardropper, Chloe B.; Weigel, Collin; Ferraro, Paul J.; Reddy, Sheila M.W.; Prokopy, Linda Stalker

doi:10.2489/jswc.2021.1109a

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“…Both will depend on local hydrological and biogeochemical processes. The significant differences in mitigation patterns associated with individual policies will have important consequences for the amount of nitrate actually reaching the Gulf due to differential N transport through the MRB [46]. In future work, it will be valuable to incorporate our multi-scale analytical framework into hydro-ecological modeling capable of routing excess nutrients through the ecosystem.…”

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Tackling policy leakage and targeting hotspots could be key to addressing the ‘Wicked’ challenge of nutrient pollution from corn production in the U.S.

Liu,

Bowling,

Kucharik

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Reducing nutrient loss from agriculture to improve water quality requires a combination of management practices. However, it has been unclear what pattern of mitigation is likely to emerge from different policies, individually and combined, and what the consequences would be for local and national land use and farm returns. We address this research gap by constructing an integrated multi-scale framework for evaluating alternative nitrogen loss management policies for corn production in the US. This approach combines site- and practice-specific agro-ecosystem processes with a grid-resolving economic model to identify locations that can be prioritized to increase the economic efficiency of the policies. We find that regional measures, albeit effective in reducing local nitrogen loss, can displace corn production to the area where nitrogen fertilizer productivity is low and nutrient loss rate is high, thereby offsetting the overall effectiveness of the nutrient management strategy. This spatial spillover effect can be suppressed by implementing the partial measures in tandem with nationwide policies. Wetland restoration combined with split fertilizer application, along with a nitrogen loss tax could reduce nitrate nitrogen loading in the Mississippi River by 30% while only increasing corn prices by less than 2%.

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Tackling policy leakage and targeting hotspots could be key to addressing the ‘Wicked’ challenge of nutrient pollution from corn production in the U.S.

Liu,

Bowling,

Kucharik

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…The specific barriers to adoption of soil health practices on rented croplands include information and communication barriers, differences in incentives, and lease terms (Petrzelka et al, 2020;Ranjan et al, 2019;Ulrich-Schad et al, 2016). TNC and its partners hypothesized that removing these barriers could enable NOLs to work with their operators and catalyze the adoption of soil health practices such as cover crops, reduced tillage, and nutrient management (Masuda et al, 2021). These practices could achieve multiple conservation benefits: increased soil health, water quality, wildlife habitat, and carbon storage (Blanco-Canqui et al, 2015;Montgomery, 2007).…”

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“…3. Financial incentive: frequently used by federal and state agricultural agencies to increase conservation practices, but not tailored toward NOLs (Masuda et al, 2021). 4.…”

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Applying a “fail‐fast” approach to conservation in US agriculture

Wardropper

Esman

Harden

et al. 2022

Conservat Sci and Prac

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Conservation programs often operate for many years with little information on program performance or impacts. A better process would encourage programs to "fail fast"-in other words, to implement rapid testing to learn and adapt early, and thereby avoid wasting resources. Here, we present a fail-fast approach applied in a multiyear field trial program that sought to improve soil health in the US Cornbelt on farmland owned by nonoperating landowners. While failing fast requires investment and a supportive team culture, we recommend that this approach to program design, with metrics tailored to the program context, be used early and frequently throughout planning and implementation phases to improve program processes and test assumptions well before final outcomes are detectable.

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“…In conservation, the question has been asked with increasing urgency: how can we engage a larger range of stakeholders in agriculture? In response, conservationists have reached out to previously marginalized stakeholders across a larger swath of the farmland renter-owner spectrum (Masuda et al 2021;Sawadgo et al 2021); developed events specifically for women (Druschke and Secchi 2014;Eells and Soulis 2013;Petrzelka et al 2019Petrzelka et al , 2021Wells and Eells 2011); and sought to honor and include Indigenous populations who place relationships and reciprocity at the core of stewarding the land (Johnson et al 2021;Reid et al 2020).…”

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Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation

Shenk

Eells²,

Almitra³

2023

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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Rented farmland: A missing piece of the nutrient management puzzle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin?

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Tackling policy leakage and targeting hotspots could be key to addressing the ‘Wicked’ challenge of nutrient pollution from corn production in the U.S.

Tackling policy leakage and targeting hotspots could be key to addressing the ‘Wicked’ challenge of nutrient pollution from corn production in the U.S.

Applying a “fail‐fast” approach to conservation in US agriculture

Women taking action: Multisession learning circles, storytelling, and an ecosystem of relationships for conservation

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