About the Authors

Charles M. Benbrook

cbenbrook@wsu.edu

Affiliation Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Gillian Butler

Affiliation School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Newcastle University, Northumberland NE, United Kingdom

Maged A. Latif

Affiliation Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative/Organic Prairie, Lafarge, Wisconsin, United States of America

Carlo Leifert

Affiliation School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Newcastle University, Northumberland NE, United Kingdom

Donald R. Davis

Affiliation Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

CROPP Cooperative is among the core funders of the “Measure to Manage Program” at Washington State University. MAL is the Director of Research & Development and Quality Assurance at CROPP Cooperative. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMB MAL. Performed the experiments: MAL. Analyzed the data: CMB DRD CL GB MAL. Wrote the paper: CMB DRD. Created the scenarios model, tables, and figures: DRD CMB.