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appealed only in the presence of special incentives such as an organic price premium.
However, farmer focus group participants and mail survey respondents expressed
willingness to adopt low-input practices in exchange for payments for ecosystem
services. Apart from existing government cost-share programs like the USDA
Environmental Quality Incentives Program, there appear to be opportunities for pay-
ments that could compensate farmers for providing added ecosystem services, such
as global warming mitigation and water-quality improvements. Payment programs
or changes in legal responsibility for agricultural pollution will likely be necessary to
create incentives for technological innovation with environmental benefits.
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