Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Research and Resources

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• Plastina, A. 2022. "The U.S. Voluntary Agricultural Carbon Market: Where to From Here?" Farm Foundation.
• Chen, J. and H. Feng. 2022. "Utility-scale Wind and Solar Development in Iowa: Trends, Prospects, and the Land Factor." Agricultural Policy Review, Winter 2022. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Plastina, A., O. Wongpiyabovorn, and J. Crespi. 2022. "What’s in Store for Voluntary Agricultural Carbon Markets?" Agricultural Policy Review, Winter 2022. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Crespi, J.M., R. Brown, A. Kimber, J. Jordahl, and L. Schulte Moore. “Overview of Carbon Science for Carbon Markets: Emerging Opportunities in Iowa” in Schulte Moore and Jordahl (editors). Carbon Science for Carbon Markets: Emerging Opportunities in Iowa. No. CROP 3175. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Ames, Iowa. 2022.
• Plastina, A., J.G. Arbuckle, J.M. Crespi, and S. Upadhaya. “Carbon Markets, Past and Present” in Schulte Moore and Jordahl (editors). Carbon Science for Carbon Markets: Emerging Opportunities in Iowa. No. CROP 3175. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Ames, Iowa. 2022.
• Plastina, A., J. Crespi, R. Appuhamy, M. Darr, B. Gelder, S.Trabue, S. Hall, D. Janvrin, M. McDaniel, B. Miller, M. Thompson, Z. Simpson, and L. Schulte Moore. “Measurement, Reporting and Verification” in Schulte Moore and Jordahl (editors). Carbon Science for Carbon Markets: Emerging Opportunities in Iowa. No. CROP 3175. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Ames, Iowa. 2022.
• Crespi, J.M. and S. Marette. 2022. "How Carbon Credits are Certified Could Change the Market Structure." Policy brief 22-PB 37. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.

• Wongpiyabovorn, O., A. Plastina, and J.M. Crespi. 2021. "US Agriculture as a Carbon Sink: From International Agreements to Farm Incentives." Working paper 21-WP 627. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Mei, Y., L. Gao, W. Zhang, and F.-A. Yang. 2021. "Do Homeowners Benefit When Coal-fired Power Plants Switch to Natural Gas? Evidence from Beijing, China." Working paper 21-WP 625. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Plastina, A. and W. Sawadgo. 2021. "Cover Crops and No-till in the I-States: Non-Permanence and Carbon Markets." Agricultural Policy Review, Fall 2021. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Wongpiyabovorn, O., A. Plastina, and S. Lence. 2021. "Futures Market for Ag Carbon Offsets under Mandatory and Voluntary Emission Targets." Agricultural Policy Review, Fall 2021. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Impact of climate change on global agricultural markets under different shared socioeconomic pathways
  Jerome Dumortier, Miguel Carriquiry, and Amani Elobeid
• How to Grow and Sell Carbon Credits in US Agriculture
  Alejandro Plastina
• Crespi, J.M. and K. Tidgren. 2021. "The First Legal Step for an Agricultural Carbon Market is in the Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021." Policy brief 21-PB 33. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Effects of a carbon tax in the United States on agricultural markets and carbon emissions from land-use change
  Jerome Dumortier and Amani Elobeid
• Do cost-share programs increase cover crop use? Empirical evidence from Iowa
  Wendiam Sawadgo and Alejandro Plastina
• Economic Considerations on Cover Crop Adoption
  Alejandro Plastina
  Iowa Learning Farms Conservation Webinar Series
• Reducing the Health Impacts of the Nitrogen Problem, Cover Crops by Region: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in the Midwest
  Alejandro Plastina
  A Virtual Workshop from the Environmental Health Matters Initiative

• Economic Drivers of Cover Crop Adoption
  Alejandro Plastina
  Invited Presentation at the 2020 Soil Management Summit, University of Minnesota Extension
• Sawadgo, W., W. Zhang, and A. Plastina. 2020. "What Drives Landowners’ Conservation Decisions? Evidence from Iowa." Working paper 20-WP 610. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• The Perceived Benefits, Challenges, and Environmental Effects of Cover Crop Implementation in South Carolina
  Lucas Clay, Katharine Perkins, Marzieh Motallebi, Alejandro Plastina, and Bhupinder Singh Farmaha
• Dumortier, J. and A. Elobeid. 2020. "Assessment of Carbon Tax Policies: Implications on U.S. Agricultural Production and Farm Income." Working paper 20-WP 606. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Global land-use and carbon emission implications from biochar application to cropland in the United States
  Dumortier, J., H. Dokoohaki, A. Elobeid, and D.J. Hayes
• Will Urbanization in Developing Countries Reduce Carbon Emissions? Panel Data Evidence from Pakistani Household Surveys
  Syed M. Hasan and Wendong Zhang
• Dumortier, J. and A. Elobeid. 2020. "Implications of a US Carbon Tax on Agricultural Markets and GHG Emissions from Land-use Change." Agricultural Policy Review, Winter 2020. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Impacts of tillage practices on soil carbon stocks in the US corn-soybean cropping system during 1998 to 2016
  Zhen Yu, Chaoqun Lu, David A Hennessy, Hongli Feng, and Hanqin Tian
• Dumortier, J. and A. Elobeid. 2020. "Effects of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act on U.S. and Global Agricultural Markets." Working paper 20-WP 598. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.

• Maize system impacts of cover crop management decisions: A simulation analysis of rye biomass response to planting populations in Iowa, USA
  Guillermo S Marcillo, Sarah Carlson, Meghan Filbert, Thomas Kaspar, Alejandro Plastina, and Fernando E Miguez
• Additionality in Co Additionality in Cover Crop Cost-Shar op Cost-Share Programs in Iowa: A ams in Iowa: A Matching Assessment
  Wendiam Sawadgo, Alejandro Plastina, and Fang-ge Liu
• Balistreri, E.J., D. Kaffine, and H. Yonezawa. 2019. "Optimal Environmental Border Adjustments Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade." Working paper 19-WP 591. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Chapter 11: Assessing the possibility of price-induced yield improvements to reduce land-use change emissions from ethanol
  Jerome Dumortier, Amani Elobeid, and Miguel Carriquiry
• An Economic Analysis of Cover Crop Utilization in Georgia Cotton and Peanut Production
  Guy Albritton Hancock, Yangxuan Liu, Amanda R Smith, and Alejandro Plastina

• The Greenness of Rural and Urban Pakistan Over Time: Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions
  Syed M. Hasan and Wendong Zhang
• Increasing carbon footprint of grain crop production in the US Western Corn Belt
  Chaoqun Lu, Zhen Yu, Hanqin Tian, David A Hennessy, Hongli Feng, Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Yuyu Zhou, Tom Sauer, and Raymond Arritt
• Long Term Biochar Effects on Corn Yield, Soil Quality, and Profitability in the US Midwest
  Aller, D., S. Archontoulis, W. Zhang, W. Sawadgo, D. Laird, and K. Moore
• Plastina, A. 2018. "Do Cover Crops Pay? Net Returns to Corn/Soybean Farmers in Iowa." Agricultural Policy Review, Spring 2018. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Assessing the impact of closing global commodity yield gaps on food production and land-use change emissions from biofuels
  Jerome Dumortier, Amani Elobeid, and Miguel Carriquiry
• Partial Budgets for Cover Crops in Midwest Row Crop Farming
  Alejandro Plastina, Fangge Liu, Wendiam Sawadgo, Fernando Miguez and Sarah Carlson
• Cover crops use in Midwestern US agriculture: perceived benefits and net returns
  Alejandro Plastina, Fangge Liu, Fernando Miguez, and Sarah Carlson
• Annual Net Returns to Cover Crops in Iowa
  Alejandro Plastina, Fangge Liu, Wendiam Sawadgo, Fernando E. Miguez, and Sarah Carlson

• Gonzalez-Ramirez, J., C. Kling, J. Arbuckle, L.W. Morton, J. McGuire, C. Ingels, and J. Benning. 2017. "Cover Crop Adoption Decisions in Iowa: Insights from an In-Person Survey." Agricultural Policy Review, Spring 2017. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.

• The Pyrolysis-Bioenergy-Biochar Pathway to Carbon Negative Energy
  David Laird, Sotirios Archontoulis, Robert Brown, Mark Wright, and Dermot Hayes
  12^th Annual Global Climate & Energy Project Research Symposium, Stanford University

• Impact of energy prices and cellulosic biomass supply on agriculture, energy, and the environment: An integrated modeling approach
  Rebecca S.Dodder, P. Ozge Kaplan, Amani Elobeid, Simla Tokgoz, Silvia Secchi, and Lyubov A. Kurkalova

• Producing energy while sequestering carbon? The relationship between biochar and agricultural productivity
  Kauffman, N., J. Dumortier, D.J. Hayes, R.C. Brown, and D.A. Laird

• Economics of Bioenergy
  Amani Elobeid, Miguel Carriquiry, Silvia Secchi, and Tun-Hsiang
• Biofuel Expansion, Fertilizer Use, and GHG Emissions: Unintended Consequences of Mitigation Policies
  Elobeid, A., M. Carriquiry, J. Dumortier, F. Rosas, K. Mulik, J.F. Fabiosa, D.J. Hayes, and B.A. Babcock
• The trade-off between bioenergy and emissions with land constraints
  Nathan S. Kauffman and Dermot J.Hayes

• Profitability of organic and conventional soybean production under ‘green payments’ in carbon offset programs
  Ariel Singerman, Kathleen Delate, Craig Chase, Catherine Greene, Michael Livingston, Sergio Lence, and Chad Hart
• Land-Use Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the FAPRI-CARD Model System: Addressing Bias and Uncertainty
  Amani E. Elobied, Miguel A. Carriquiry, and Jacinto F. Fabiosa
• The effects of potential changes in United States beef production on global grazing systems and greenhouse gas emissions
  Dumortier, J., D.J. Hayes, M. Carriquiry, F. Dong, X. Du, A. Elobeid, J.F. Fabiosa, P.A. Martin, and K. Mulik

• Dodder, R., A. Elobeid, T. Johnson, P. Kaplan, L.A. Kurkalova, S. Secchi, and S. Tokgoz. 2011. "Environmental Impacts of Emerging Biomass Feedstock Markets: Energy, Agriculture, and the Farmer." Working paper 11-WP 526. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Elobeid, A., M. Carriquiry, J.F. Fabiosa, K. Mulik, D.J. Hayes, B.A. Babcock, J. Dumortier, and F. Rosas. 2011. "Greenhouse Gas and Nitrogen Fertilizer Scenarios for U.S. Agriculture and Global Biofuels." Working paper 11-WP 524. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Assessment of Environmental Impacts Embodied in U.S.-China and U.S.-India Trade and Related Climate Change Policies
  Xiaodong Du, Fengxia Dong, Dermot J. Hayes and Tristan R. Brown

• Dumortier, J., D.J. Hayes, M. Carriquiry, F. Dong, X. Du, A. Elobeid, J.F. Fabiosa, and K. Mulik. 2010. "Modeling the Effects of Pasture Expansion on Emissions from Land-Use Change." Working paper 10-WP 504. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Brown, T., A. Elobeid, J. Dumortier, and D.J. Hayes. 2010. "Market Impact of Domestic Offset Programs." Working paper 10-WP 502. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.

• Dumortier, J., D.J. Hayes, M. Carriquiry, F. Dong, X. Du, A. Elobeid, J.F. Fabiosa, and S. Tokgoz. 2009. "Sensitivity of Carbon Emission Estimates from Indirect Land-Use Change." Working paper 09-WP 493. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Dumortier, J. and D.J. Hayes. 2009. "Towards an Integrated Global Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Model: Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture Simulation Model (GreenAgSiM)." Working paper 09-WP 490. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Towards an Integrated Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Model: Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture Simulation Model (GreenAgSiM)
  Jerome Dumortier and Dermot J. Hayes
  Poster
• Perspectives on Addressing Global Climate Change Issues: Case of U.S. and China
  Du Fang, Hongli Hennessey, and Daniel Otto

• Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change
  Searchinger, T., R. Heimlich, R.A. Houghton, F. Dong, A. Elobeid, J. Fabiosa, S. Tokgoz, D. Hayes, and T.-H. Yu
• Feng, H., O.D. Rubin, and B.A. Babcock. 2008. "Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Ethanol from Iowa Corn: Life Cycle Analysis versus System-wide Accounting." Working paper 08-WP 461. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.

• Privatizing Ecosystem Services: Water Quality Effects from a Carbon Market
  Silvia Secchi, Manoj Jha, Lyubov Kurkalova, Hongli Feng, Philip Gassman and Catherine Kling

• Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture: an Offset Program versus Other Conservation Programs
  Hongli Feng and Catherine L Kling
• Secchi, S., M. Jha, L.A. Kurkalova, H. Feng, P.W. Gassman, and C.L. Kling. 2005. "Designation of Co-benefits and Its Implication for Policy: Water Quality versus Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils, The." Working paper 05-WP 389. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Feng, H. and C.L. Kling. 2005. "Consequences of Co-benefits for the Efficient Design of Carbon Sequestration Programs, The." Working paper 05-WP 390. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Feng, H. 2005. "Dynamics of Carbon Sequestration and Alternative Carbon Accounting, with an Application to the Upper Mississippi River Basin, The." Working paper 05-WP 386. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Kurkalova, L.A. 2005. "Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: Discounting for Uncertainty." Working paper 05-WP 388. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Feng, H., L.A. Kurkalova, C.L. Kling, and P.W. Gassman. 2005. "Economic and Environmental Co-benefits of Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: Retiring Agricultural Land in the Upper Mississippi River Basin." Working paper 05-WP 384. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.

• Feng, H., C.L. Kling, and P.W. Gassman. 2004. "Carbon Sequestration, Co-Benefits, and Conservation Programs." Working paper 04-WP 379. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Co-benefits from Conservation Policies that Promote Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture: The Corn Belt
  Hongli Feng, Luba Kurkalova, Philip Gassman, Catherine Kling, and Silvia Secchi
  Presented at the Forestry and Agriculture Greenhouse Gas Modeling Forum, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
• Carbon Sequestration, Co-Benefits, and Conservation Programs
  Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling and Philip W. Gassman
• Trade-off of Carbon Sequestration through Land Retirement versus Working Land
  H. Feng, L. Kurkalova, and C. Kling
  Presented at the CASMGS Forum, Texas A&M University

• Kurkalova, L.A., C.L. Kling, and J. Zhao. 2003. "Institutions and the Value of Nonpoint Source Measurement Technology: Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils." Working paper 03-WP 338. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Gassman, P.W., T. Campbell, R. Izaurralde, A.M. Thomson, and J.D. Atwood. 2003. "Regional Estimation of Soil Carbon and Other Environmental Indicators Using EPIC and i_EPIC." Technical report 03-TR 46. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Kurkalova, L.A., C.L. Kling, and J. Zhao. 2003. "Multiple Benefits of Carbon-Friendly Agricultural Practices: Empirical Assessment of Conservation Tillage." Working paper 03-WP 326. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.

• Feng, H. 2002. "Dynamics of Carbon Sequestration and Measures of Cost-Effectiveness, The." Working paper 02-WP 320. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• The Value of Accurate, Field-Scale, Soil Carbon Assessment Technology: Conservation Tillage in Iowa
  L.A. Kurkalova, C.L. Kling, and J. Zhao
  Selected paper, presented at USDA Symposium on Natural Resource Management to Offset Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Schneider, U.A. 2002. "Cost of Agricultural Carbon Savings, The." Working paper 02-WP 306. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Schneider, U.A. and B. McCarl. 2002. "Potential of U.S. Agriculture and Forestry to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Agricultural Sector Analysis, The." Working paper 02-WP 300. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• The Time Path and Implementation of Carbon Sequestration
  Hongli Feng, Jinhua Zhao, and Catherine L Kling

• Schneider, U.A., B. McCarl, and R. Woodward. 2001. "Harvesting the Greenhouse through Altered Land Management: Economic Potential and Market Design Challenges." Working paper 01-WP 288. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Schneider, U.A. and B. McCarl. 2001. "Greenhouse Gas Mitigation through Energy Crops in the United States with Implications for Asian-Pacific Countries." Working paper 01-WP 274. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Schneider, U.A. and B. McCarl. 2001. "Economic Potential of Biomass-Based Fuels for Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation." Working paper 01-WP 280. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Schneider, U.A., B. McCarl, B. Murray, J. Williams, and R. Sands. 2001. "Economic Potential of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions: Comparative Role for Soil Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry." Working paper 01-WP 281. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• McCarl, B., B. Murray, and U.A. Schneider. 2001. "Influences of Permanence on the Comparative Value of Biological Sequestration versus Emissions Offsets." Working paper 01-WP 282. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Schneider, U.A., H.C. Lee, B. McCarl, and C.C. Chen. 2001. "Effects of Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation Policies: The Role of International Trade." Working paper 01-WP 279. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Carbon: The next big cash crop?
  Hongli Feng, Jinhua Zhao, and Catherine L Kling

• Feng, H., J. Zhao, and C.L. Kling. 2000. "Towards Implementing Carbon Markets in Agriculture." Working paper 00-WP 261. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Feng, H., J. Zhao, and C.L. Kling. 2000. "Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture: Value and Implementation." Working paper 00-WP 256. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Pautsch, G.R., L.A. Kurkalova, B.A. Babcock, and C.L. Kling. 2000. "Efficiency of Sequestering Carbon in Agricultural Soils, The." Working paper 00-WP 246. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.

• Mitchell, P.D., P.G. Lakshminarayan, T. Otake, and B.A. Babcock. 1996. "Impact of Soil Conservation Policies on Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils of the Central United States, The." Working paper 96-WP 170. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.

• Reese, R., A. Bouzaher, and J.F. Shogren. 1993. "Long-Term Economic Consequences of Alternative Carbon Reducing Conservation and Wetlands Reserve Programs: A BLS Analysis." Working paper 93-WP 114. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.
• Bouzaher, A., D. Holtkamp, R. Reese, and J.F. Shogren. 1993. "Economic and Resource Impacts of Policies to Increase Organic Carbon in Agricultural Soils." Working paper 93-WP 105. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University.