The Mississippi River is the most critical artery of the inland waterway system, supporting between 50 and 60 percent of total U.S. corn exports and 30 to 45 percent of total U.S. soybean exports. In calendar year 2002, ...

CREP will reduce non-point source pollution loads to streams, but may not significantly improve water quality in the reservoir.

Final Report for EPA Grant CG000225. For the last decade the Missouri Watershed Water Quality Initiative project has assessed alternative programs and practices that protect the common good of natural resource use while minimizing negative economic...

This document is a baseline projection for the agricultural economy using a very specific set of assumptions. The baseline serves as a benchmark for analyzing alternative policies.

This study used a combination of methods to evaluate the value of Missouri's Department of Natural Resources (MODNR) conservation programs for the affected regional economies.

, respectively. The impacts are measured against baseline projections prepared by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)....

This report outlines enhanced existing local cooperative water quality efforts, sumarizes economic and physical data, and discusses how that information was used to develop analytical models....