Regional cost share necessary for rancher participation in brush control
TR Number
Date
2001
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Bozeman, MT: Western Agricultural Economics Association
Abstract
This paper uses biophysical and economic simulation models to assess the proposed large-scale brush-control programs in four regions of the Edwards Plateau area in Texas. The objective of the brush control is to increase off-site water yields. For representative ranches in three of the four regions, brush control decreases the net present value. For these three regions to break even on brush control costs, there would need to be cost sharing of 7 to 31% of the total costs. Consequently, the state of Texas would have to supply a significant investment for large-scale brush-control programs to be feasible.
Description
Metadata only record
Keywords
Government policy, Ranching, Modeling, Rangelands, Economic impacts, Economic modeling and analysis, Cost sharing, Livestock, Brush control, Edwards plateau, Texas, Rancher focus groups, Simulations, Water yields, Phytomass growth simulator (phygrow), Flipsim, Food and agricultural policy research institute (fapri), Cost-benefit analysis, Farm/Enterprise Scale Governance
Citation
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 26(2): 478-490