1. Introduction and overview.
2. Agricultural chemical use.
3. The economic and environmental implications of alternative production practices.
4. The influence of government policy on the choice of production practices and chemical use.
5. Government policy and the development and use of biopesticides.
6. The changing pattern of soil erosion in the United States.
7. Perceptions versus reality: the case of no till farming.
8. The use of conservation practices in agriculture in the United States.
9. The impact of energy on the adoption of conservation tillage in the United States.
10. The environmental consequences of the conservation tillage adoption decision in agriculture in the United States.
