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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of county-level variables used to calibrate the Baseline

From: The business case for carbon farming in the USA

Region

Cover Crops

No-Till

2017 Adoption Rate

(% of cropland)*

Out-of-pocket cost

($ ha−1)^

2017 Adoption Rate

(% of cropland)*

Out-of-pocket cost

($ ha−1)^

Mean

StDev

Mean

StDev

Mean

StDev

Mean

StDev

Heartland

4.63

3.55

77.4

27.6

32.53

18.08

18.6

7.81

Northern Crescent

8.13

7.36

56.2

14.1

15.91

14.85

13.7

3.48

Northern Great Plains

1.69

1.25

129

41.2

29.84

22.14

28.1

9.8

Prairie Gateway

2.65

2.69

87.9

20.9

22.03

20.60

21.2

6.42

Eastern Uplands

4.41

4.47

72.2

21.4

14.19

14.95

15.2

4.44

Southern Seaboard

8.63

8.96

55.9

14.3

21.85

20.87

13.3

3.04

Fruitful Rim

4.45

5.84

75.8

25.3

6.69

7.79

17.8

5.87

Basin and Range

2.54

2.85

66.1

18.3

9.35

13.78

15.9

4.75

Mississippi Portal

3.73

4.08

61.6

15.1

21.19

20.53

15.2

5.13

U.S. Total

5.09

5.96

73.1

28.5

20.50

19.39

17.1

6.9

  1. * Source: Sawadgo and Plastina [22]
  2. ^ Source: authors’ calculations based on USDA (2023a)