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 …

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 …

Crop farmers have few short-run options for reducing downside production risk from changes in drought frequency and … intensity due to ongoing climate change. However, one recently available option is drought-tolerant (DT) varieties. We determine … how recent drought exposure, drought risk, and other climatic features have influenced adoption of DT corn--a water …

In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for … cents per gallon of water saved on average. Moreover, informing consumers about the drought severity increases the WTP for …

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 …

examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … drought and institutional change in the early 2000s led to an exogenous shock to expectations for some water right holders. We … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by …

Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … and irrigation districts that emerged in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to …

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 …