for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated … 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 …

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 … incentivizing adaptation to increasing water scarcity in irrigated agriculture …

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 …

This paper highlights the role of agriculture in the American economy and society over time and points to farmer …