The United States Department of Agriculture is cooperating in an interagency study to plan for the future development and control of the water resources of the Potomac River Basin.' One assignment undertaken by the Farm Economics Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, is that of...

Estimating the demand curve for farm irrigation water is a matter of serious concern in most of the Western States today and may be so in portions of the humid East in the near future. Farmers and other users have filed claims to all readily available streamflow, and private and public agencies...

The spectacular nature of many of the breakthroughs In biotechnology has generated considerable publicity and has made demands on agricultural economists for ex ante assessment of potential impacts This article suggests a research agenda for evaluating the impacts of biotechnology on...

Passage of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act has focused attention on the small watershed development program.' The strategic problems involved are those that center around management of land and water and the resulting effects on water runoff, soil erosion, and sedimentation....

Research on the market for irrigation water has been initiated to examine the institutional arrangements that have developed in certain areas to make irrigation water more readily transferable between farmers who have varying seasonal needs for water. This article outlines the manner and extent...

An area of research in agricultural economics hitherto largely neglected was introduced with the recent publication of "Trade in Horticultural Specialties," 1 which was issued by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics last April. The data in this statistical compendium constitute the basis for...

The costs of obtaining a given level of accuracy in estimating yields of tree fruit might be lowered by the use of photographs or supplemental information on fruiting potential. A small-scale experiment of this sort is described for peaches and apples. A procedure for evaluating the relative...

As part of the cotton forecasting research reported by Hendricks and Huddleston elsewhere in this issue, intensive studies are conducted in an attempt to make more accurate predictions of the quantity of immature fruit on the plants, as of a given date, which will develop to maturity and...

The relative merits of different methods of measuring volume of retail sales of particular commodities has been a debated subject in recent years. As a byproduct of an experiment in retail store merchandising, a direct comparison of some alternative methods is made in this paper, a matter of...