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

Kenneth B. Young and Jerry M. Coomer

No 307879, Agricultural Economic Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37
Date: 1980-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307879

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