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Impact of alternative energy prices, tenure arrangements and irrigation technologies on a typical Texas high plains farm firm
dc.contributor.advisor | Lacewell, Ronald Dale | |
dc.creator | Petty, James A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T22:12:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-21T22:12:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1980 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-685582 | |
dc.description | Vita. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Irrigation is a major contributing factor in crop production on the Texas High Plains. It is responsible for greatly increasing crop production and farm income for the region. Two factors, a declining groundwater supply and increasing production costs, are of primary concern because they impact on farm operations and producer economic viability. A recursive linear programming model for a typical Texas High Plains irrigated farm was developed to evaluate expected impact of price changes, tenure and new technology. The model includes a Fortran sub-routine that adjusts irrigation factors each year based on the linear programming solution of the previous year. After calculating new pumping energy requirements, well yield, and pumping lift, the Fortran component updates the linear programming model. This procedure continues automatically to the end of a specified planning period or to economic exhaustion of the groundwater, whichever occurs first. Static applications of the model, in a deep water situation, showed that a natural gas price increase from $1.50 to $2.20 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) would result in reductions in irrigation levels. Irrigation was terminated when the price of natural gas reached about $7.00 per mcf. In a shallow water situation, much higher natural gas prices were reached ($3.60 per mcf) before short-run- adjustments in farm organization began to occur. Under furrow irrigation, irrigation was terminated when the natural gas price reached $7.00 per mcf. Increased natural gas prices impact heavily on returns above variable costs (up to 15 percent reductions) for a 60 percent natural gas price increase. The effects of rising natural gas prices over a longer period of time were more significant. Annual returns (above variable and fixed costs) were reduced by as much as 30 percent, and the present value of returns to water was reduced by as much as 80 percent as the natural gas price was increased annually by $0.25 per mcf (from $1.50 per mcf). The economic life of deep groundwater was shortened by as much as 18 years. Renter-operators are even more vulnerable to rising natural gas prices than are owner-operators. With rising natural gas prices, profitability over time for the renter is low... | en |
dc.format.extent | xiv, 268 leaves | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | Agricultural productivity | en |
dc.subject | Economic history | en |
dc.subject | Farm management | en |
dc.subject | Mathematical models | en |
dc.subject | Irrigation farming | en |
dc.subject | Economic aspects | en |
dc.subject | Major agricultural economics | en |
dc.subject.classification | 1980 Dissertation P512 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Irrigation farming | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Economic aspects | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Texas | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Farm management | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Mathematical models | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Texas | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Agricultural productivity | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Texas | en |
dc.title | Impact of alternative energy prices, tenure arrangements and irrigation technologies on a typical Texas high plains farm firm | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Griffin, Wade L. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | McBee, George G. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Whintson, Robert E. | |
dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries | |
dc.identifier.oclc | 6887323 |
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