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A Bioeconomic Simulation Analysis of Irrigation Investments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

W. G Boggess  and
C. B. Amerling
W. G Boggess
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville
C. B. Amerling
Affiliation:
Soil Conservation Service, Columbia, Missouri
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Agriculture is unique with respect to the importance of weather variability on output and profits. Irrigation has long been recognized as a means of increasing yields and profits in the arid west, and recently interest in investments in supplemental irrigation in humid areas has accelerated (Brown and Skinner; Hewitt et al.; Levins; Clouser et al., Worm et al.; Schoney and Massie).

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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , December 1983 , pp. 85 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1983

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