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Abstract

Georgia is the second largest producer of cotton and the largest producer of peanuts in the United States. As natural resources become more scarce, these industries have been facing increasing challenges to improve sustainability. Alternative land use practices, such as planting cover crops and adopting advanced irrigation scheduling methods, need to be identified and implemented to ensure water security and efficiency in agricultural production. By interviewing extension agents and agricultural producers, enterprise budgets were developed to reflect alternative land use management practices. These budgets documented cultural practices for cotton and peanut production. Farm-scale production costs and revenues associated with current best management practices (BMP) were included in the enterprise budgets. These bundles of BMPs were evaluated at three scenario levels: intensive, typical, and minimal implementation. This paper utilizes focus groups and economic simulation analysis to compare the alternative BMP scenarios and the impact of these scenarios on land net returns.

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