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NRCS Economic Data and Analysis

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NRCS Economic Case Studies Webpage
Conservation Discussion Papers
All NRCS current state payment schedules and conservation practice scenarios, Earlier Payment Schedules
Economics, Technical Note 200-ECN-4 Understanding the Information Being Presented Differentiating Between Quantitative and Qualitative
Economics Technical Note 200-ECN-5 Developing Conservation Case Studies for Decision-making
TN 450-TCH-7 Environmental Markets: A Guide to Tools and Resources to Expand Conservation Practice Adoption

Additional Analyses:

Applying Biosolids: Issues for Virginia Agriculture (PDF, 60.4KB)
Cover Crops: Why grow a crop you don't sell? Webinar
Case Study - Transition to Cover Crop for a Beginning Farmer (PDF, 3.86MB)
Cover Crops: The Corn Story, the First Year (PDF, 5.21MB)
Cover Crop Economics Tool is a user-friendly economic assessment tool to assess the costs and benefits of incorporating cover crops into a crop rotation.
Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP)
Conservation Effects for Decision-makers
Conservation Practice Benefit-Cost Templates
Conservation Practice Physical Effects
Contingent valuation/Recreational Values
Gomez Regional Indicators Project
Hispanics in Agriculture
IMPLAN Regional Economic Analysis and Data
National Resources Inventory (NRI), 2017 NRI Summary Report
Ogallala Aquifer Initiative : Groundwater Irrigation and Water Withdrawals (PDF, 1.75MB)
Practices to Address Each Resource Concern (XLSM 1.95 KB)
Recreational and Water Quality
2015 Review of NRCS Legacy Easement Programs and Suggestions for Current Easement Programs
2012 SWCS Economic Presentations
- Developing a Comprehensive National Conservation Cost Database (PPTX, 594KB)
- Economic Implications of Deed Restrictions on NRCS Conservation Easements (PPTX, 656KB)
- Estimating Flood Damages Averted from NRCS Watershed Projects (PDF, 1.25MB
- Use of the Discount Rate in Conservation Programs and Projects (PPTX, 1.44MB)
- Value of Environmental Benefits from NRCS WRP easements. (PPTX, 1.44MB)

NRCS Economics Handbooks