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Effects of Natural Gas Price Increases on Texas High Plains Irrigation, 1976-2025

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  • Young, Kenneth B.
  • Coomer, Jerry M.

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The effects of increasing natural gas prices on crop water use and net crop income under alternative crop prices were determined for a 32-county region of the Texas High Plains. An increase in natural gas prices could substantially reduce irrigation over the projection period, based on results from a recursive linear programming model. The price of natural gas, and not the quantity of remaining ground water reserves, may now become the restrictive factor. Irrigation of major crops--based on increasing natural gas prices--is projected to end in 1995 and annual net crop income to fall from $277 million to $164 million.

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  • Young, Kenneth B. & Coomer, Jerry M., 1980. "Effects of Natural Gas Price Increases on Texas High Plains Irrigation, 1976-2025," Agricultural Economic Reports 307879, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:307879
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307879
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    1. Harry P. Mapp & Craig L. Dobbins, 1976. "Implications of Rising Energy Costs for Irrigated Farms in the Oklahoma Panhandle," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 58(5), pages 971-977.
    2. Happ, Harry P. Jr. & Dobbins, Craig L., 1976. "Implications Of Rising Energy Costs For Irrigated Farms In The Oklahoma Panhandle," 1976 Annual Meeting, August 15-18, State College, Pennsylvania 283910, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
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