Irrigation Technology Transitions in the Mid-plains States: Implications for Water Conservation/Water Quality Goals and Institutional Changes

Schaible, Glenn D.; Aillery, Marcel P.

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“…Water conservation in irrigated agriculture became an increasingly important focus of water policy to address water allocation concerns. Various water policy analyses as early as the late 1960s recognized the merits of new regulatory, conservation, and water market policies designed to mitigate water resource allocation confl icts (Gardner and Fullerton, 1968;Hamilton et al, 1989;Hornbaker and Mapp, 1988;Howe, 1985;Martin, 1986;Moore, 1991;Schaible, 1997 and2000;Peterson et al, 2003;Kim et al, 1989;Schaible and Aillery 2003). At the same time, producers receiving assistance from Federal and State resource conservation programs adopted more effi cient irrigation systems to improve irrigation returns, enhance the health and productivity of their resource base, and ensure a more sustainable future for their livelihoods.…”

Section: How Effi Cient Is Irrigated Agriculture?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3. Improved onfarm irrigation effi ciency generally results in signifi cant water quality and environmental benefi ts (Huffaker, 2010;Kim et al, 2000;Schaible and Aillery, 2003;Weinberg et al, 1993). Effi cient irrigation "production systems" allow producers to improve their nutrient management practices through chemical application effi ciencies, reduced soil erosion runoff, improved salinity control, and improved drainage water quality.…”

Section: Irrigation Production Systems and Agricultural Water Conservmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Water Conservation in Irrigated Agriculture: Trends and Challenges in the Face of Emerging Demands

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Water Conservation in Irrigated Agriculture: Trends and Challenges in the Face of Emerging Demands

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“…Lichtenberg (1989) demonstrated the importance of center-pivot irrigation technology adoption in explaining the shift in crop production for western Nebraska to more water-sensitive crops (particularly maize). Schaible et al (1991) and Schaible and Aillery (2003) examined irrigation technology transitions for the U.S. Pacific Northwest (PNW) and the mid-Plains States regions, respectively, finding that time-dependent economic influences (normalized commodity prices) were critical in explaining producer transitions to more efficient irrigation systems. For both regions, in the absence of policy-induced conservation incentives, future irrigation technology transitions were found to continue but at a relatively slow to modest pace.…”

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Factors influencing environmental stewardship in U.S. agriculture: Conservation program participants vs. non-participants

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a b s t r a c tUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation policy has increasingly shifted from a traditional land-retirement focus to greater emphasis on producer adoption of working-land conservation practices. This research made use of USDA integrated field/farm surveys, the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) and Agricultural Resources Management Survey (ARMS), to (1) enhance understanding of operator, field, farm, economic, and environmental characteristic differences between conservation program participants and non-participants across a farm typology, and (2) to enhance understanding of the relative importance of these factors on influencing farm stewardship intensity in corn and wheat production, i.e., how these factors influence differences in producer adoption of alternative levels of land and pest-management practices between conservation program participants and non-participants. The research used a cost-function acreage-based technology adoption model to examine farm stewardship differences. Results indicate that program non-participants invest more heavily in land conserving and pest-management practices than program participants. Relative prices, structural, and socio-environmental factors play significantly different roles across crops, and between conservation program participants and non-participants, in their influence on producer adoption decisions for land and pest-management intensity. The environmental effectiveness and cost efficiency of conservation programs will likely improve when their implementation more explicitly recognizes farm heterogeneity as well as differences in farmer motivations for stewardship investments. Recognizing these differences can help improve targeting of conservation incentive structures.

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“…However, this expansion in irrigated agriculture brought with it additional problems, i.e., competitive resource allocation issues. With continued population growth in the West, the advent of the environmental age, and increased judicial efforts to honor Native American water rights, significant water policy analyses since the early 1980s have recognized the merits of new regulatory, conservation, and water market policies designed to mitigate water resource allocation conflicts (Howe 1985; Martin 1986; Hornbaker and Mapp 1988; Hamilton et al 1989; Kim et al 1989; Moore 1991; Schaible 2000; Peterson et al 2003; Schaible and Aillery 2003). But producers themselves, with assistance from Federal and State resource conservation programs, have adopted conserving irrigation production systems to improve irrigation returns, enhance the health and productivity of their resource base, and ensure a more sustainable future for their livelihoods.…”

Section: Historical Transitions In Irrigation Technology/water Managementioning

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Dynamic Adjustment of Irrigation Technology/Water Management in Western U.S. Agriculture: Toward a Sustainable Future

Schaible¹,

Kim²,

Aillery³

2010

Canadian J Agri Economics

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Changing water demands induced through climate change and a growing biofuel energy sector throughout the western States are expected to increase pressures on the present allocation mechanisms for an increasingly scarce resource, raising uncertainty about the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the West. In this paper, we first present the policy motivation for examining continued producer adoption of water conserving irrigation production systems as a foundation for providing a sustainable future for western irrigated agriculture. Second, we summarize the historical transitions that help to define the adjustment path to increased sustainability for the sector. While western irrigated agriculture is on a path toward greater sustainability, evidence suggests that the sustainability goal has not been fully attained. Third, we develop a new conceptual framework for groundwater management that endogenizes both per acre applied water and an acreage‐based technology adoption relationship within a normative, dynamic‐optimization model for groundwater irrigated agriculture. The framework models producer adoption decisions under uncertainty while accounting for the influence of irrigation technology as a quasi‐fixed input, i.e., the influence of asset fixity on producer adoption decisions. In this model, total crop production is based on consumptive use of irrigation water while the cost side is based on total applied water. L’évolution de la demande en eau que suscitent le changement climatique et l’essor du secteur des biocarburants dans l’Ouest américain devrait faire monter les pressions sur les mécanismes actuels d’allocation d’une ressource de plus en plus limitée, soulevant ainsi de l’incertitude quant à la viabilité de l’agriculture irriguée dans cette région. Dans le présent article, nous avons tout d’abord présenté la motivation politique pour examiner l’adoption soutenue, de la part des producteurs agricoles, de systèmes de production irriguée axés sur l’économie de l’eau comme élément permettant d’assurer un avenir durable pour l’agriculture irriguée. Nous avons ensuite résumé les transitions historiques qui aident à définir les mesures à prendre pour accroître la viabilité du secteur. Bien que l’agriculture irriguée dans l’Ouest américain soit sur la voie d’une viabilité accrue, les données disponibles autorisent à penser que l’objectif de la viabilité n’a pas été pleinement atteint. Enfin, nous avons élaboré un nouveau cadre conceptuel pour la gestion de l’eau souterraine qui endogénise le lien entre l’eau utilisée à l’acre et l’adoption d’une technologie fondée sur la superficie dans le cadre d’un modèle d’optimisation dynamique normatif pour l’agriculture irriguée à partir des eaux souterraines. Le cadre conceptuel modélise les décisions d’adoption du producteur en présence d’incertitude tout en tenant compte de l’influence des technologies d’irrigation comme intrants quasi fixes, c’est‐à‐dire, l’influence de la fixité des actifs sur les décisions d’adoption du producteur. Dans ce modèle, la produc...

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Irrigation Technology Transitions in the Mid-plains States: Implications for Water Conservation/Water Quality Goals and Institutional Changes

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Water Conservation in Irrigated Agriculture: Trends and Challenges in the Face of Emerging Demands

Water Conservation in Irrigated Agriculture: Trends and Challenges in the Face of Emerging Demands

Factors influencing environmental stewardship in U.S. agriculture: Conservation program participants vs. non-participants

Dynamic Adjustment of Irrigation Technology/Water Management in Western U.S. Agriculture: Toward a Sustainable Future

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