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Comparison of Water Allocation Strategies for Wheat Production in the Texas Panhandle

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Colette, W. Arden
Almas, Lal K.
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The declining availability of irrigation water from the Ogallala aquifer combined with increasing energy costs make irrigation strategies much more critical. Irrigation strategies that maximize returns to irrigation require less water and achieve higher returns than strategies aimed at satisfying 100% of the crops evapotranspiration (ET) requirements.

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Paper provided by Southern Agricultural Economics Association in its series 2007 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2007, Mobile, Alabama with number 34995.

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Keywords: irrigation efficiency; water response function; input use optimization; ET; Crop Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy;

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