Determining the benefits of environmental improvements in pork production and their sustainability: a community-based study of Iowa's pork industry
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1999
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Kliebenstein, James
Hurley, Sean
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Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Leopold Center is a research and education center on the campus of Iowa State University created to identify and reduce negative environmental and social impacts of farming and develop new ways to farm profitably while conserving natural resources.
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What is a sustainable environment worth to pork producers, neighbors, rural community residents, and pork consumers? Surveys and experimental auctions were used to gauge participants' willingness to pay for pork products produced in systems with differing environmental improvements and/ or impacts