, technological improvements made groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer available for irrigation. Comparing counties over the Ogallala … with nearby similar counties, groundwater access increased irrigation intensity and initially reduced the impact of …

efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … irrigation in the U.S. comes from off-farm supplies, improvements in delivery and conveyance efficiency also have the potential … to significantly reduce water losses. This study utilizes survey data from irrigation water delivery organizations in the …

agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers' access to groundwater. Comparing counties over the Ogallala with …

Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as … consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical estimates of how farmers respond to changes in groundwater costs … variation in the price of electricity, a key input into groundwater extraction, we find that farmers are very price responsive …

examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by … changes in surface water availability than groundwater. This analysis provides useful insight into the role of beliefs in …

Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US …, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has … been a nearly threefold increase in center pivot irrigation systems (CPIS) installations since 1988. Specifically, we …

algorithm's cutoff using a regression discontinuity design, we find that automated irrigation violation warnings cause … irrigation policy enforcement. Our findings highlight the merits of implementing multidimensional conservation programs …

We provide novel evidence that large-scale irrigation heterogeneously shifts the temperature distribution towards … over the Ogallala aquifer. Cooling-by-irrigation propagates downwind and reduces the upper tail of the temperature … benefits of irrigation by enhancing heat tolerance ($440 million per year). The observed cooling helps explain why the US has …