Wendong Zhang, Assistant Professor of Economics, and Alejandro Plastina, Associate Professor of Economics, published in the latest issue of Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. Zhang and Plastina co-authored "What drives landowners’ conservation decisions? Evidence from Iowa" with Wendiam Sawadgo, Assistant Professor of Economics at Auburn University. Using a statistically representative survey of Iowa landowners, their article examines the factors driving adoption of four key conservation practices—no-till, cover crops, buffer strips, and ponds/sediment basins. The full article is available here.

What drives landowners’ conservation decisions? Evidence from Iowa
W.P.M. Sawadgo, W. Zhang and A. Plastina
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2021.00115