The Landscape in 2025: Alternative Future Landscape Scenarios, A Means to Consider Agricultural Policy

Abstract

Agricultural policy implies new future scenarios for agricultural landscapes each time a new federal farm bill or emergency aid to farmers is debated. Future landscape scenario studies can suggest policies that could achieve specific goals or make the implications of proposed policy apparent. This paper compares the 1994 landscape with three alternative future landscape scenarios for two Iowa Corn Belt agricultural watersheds. Each alternative emphasizes different ecological, hydrological, and and crop production goals.USEPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) programPeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/49342/1/JSWC57_Nassauer.pd

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