Irrigation Water Demand: Price Elasticities and Climatic Determinants in the Great Lakes Region

Ari Kornelis and Patricia Norris

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2020, vol. 49, issue 3, 437-464

Abstract: This article explores the environmental and market determinants of irrigation management in a five-state Great Lakes region. We found evidence that corn, soybean, and potato irrigators respond to the cost of water at the intensive margin. Evidence of a water-cost effect at the extensive margin was mixed. This article is unique in its geographic focus and its consideration of various temperature effects. We found evidence of a long-run average temperature effect on crop acreage allocation decisions and a short-run extreme heat effect on water application rates.

Date: 2020
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