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Part 610 (Draft) NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook

Updated 08/25/2009

The temporary use of this site it to coordinate the current work being done by the NRCS Economic Tools Working Group led by Dr. Liu-Hsiung Chuang, RESSD, NRCS.
This page contains the current draft work for Part 610 (Draft) NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook.

This is the January 7, 2004 draft Handbook.

Part 610 (Draft) NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook
Part 611 NRCS National Water Resources Handbook for Economics (PDF, 855 KB)
Part 612 NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook, Water Quality (PDF, 4MB)
Part 613 NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook, Payment Schedules (PDF, 286 KB)

Older materials include:
The appendix A , B, and C (PDF, 298 KB)
Econ Appendix A: Interest and Annuity Sample Problems (PDF, 111 KB)
Econ Appendix B: Breakeven Analysis Sample Problems (PDF, 18.2 KB)
Econ Appendix C: Buffer Economics Sample Problems (PDF, 19.4 KB)
Appendix D: Interest and Annuity Tables (XLS, 75.0 KB) (Change the interest rate in the Excel spreadsheet as you require.)
Older versions, including most common rates. (XLS, 270 KB)

The June 2001 'official draft'. (PDF, 327 KB)