ABD e-News, July 19, 2007

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ABD e-News, July 27, 2007

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ABD e-News, August 3, 2007

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EPI Update, August 3, 2007

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

EPI Update, July 13, 2007

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

EPI Update, July 20, 2007

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

EPI Update, July 27, 2007

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

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Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, August 3, 2007

Record of the Fatalities for Motor Vehicle Accidents in Iowa per week.

Secure and Prepared Newsletter, August 7, 2007

Bi-monthly newsletter for those involved in the fields of homeland security and/or emergency management.

Secure and Prepared Newsletter, July 24, 2007, Vol. 3, no. 12

A bi-weekly newsletter for those involved in the fields of homeland security and/or emergency management

Motor Vehicle Accident Fatalities for the Week Ending, August 10, 2007

Record of the Fatalities for Motor Vehicle Accidents in Iowa per week.

EPI Update, August 10, 2007

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Impact of High Crop Prices on Environmental Quality: A Case of Iowa and the Conservation Reserve Program, 2007

Growing demand for corn due to the expansion of ethanol has increased concerns that environmentally sensitive lands retired from agricultural production into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) will be cropped again. Iowa produces more ethanol than any other state in the United States, and it also produces the most corn. Thus, an examination of the impacts of higher crop prices on CRP land in Iowa can give insight into what we might expect nationally in the years ahead if crop prices remain high. We construct CRP land supply curves for various corn prices and then estimate the environmental impacts of cropping CRP land through the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model. EPIC provides edge-of-field estimates of soil erosion, nutrient loss, and carbon sequestration. We find that incremental impacts increase dramatically as higher corn prices bring into production more and more environmentally fragile land. Maintaining current levels of environmental quality will require substantially higher spending levels. Even allowing for the cost savings that would accrue as CRP land leaves the program, a change in targeting strategies will likely be required to ensure that the most sensitive land does not leave the program.