Land Retirement Program Design and Empirical Assessments In the Presence of Crop Insurance Subsidies
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The U.S. Federal Government implements environmental, biofuels and crop insurance
programs that influence land use. They are not well-integrated in that cost savings from crop insurance subsidies are not acknowledged when screening land for retirement or when calculating the cost of land retirement programs. We identify and evaluate an optimal benefit index for enrollment in a land retirement program that includes a sub-index to rank land according to insurance subsidy savings. All else equal, land ranked higher in the Lorenz
stochastic order should be retired first. Empirical analysis based on field level data will be provided.