Agriculture on the American Great Plains has been constrained by historical water scarcity. After World War II …, 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 …

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 …

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 …

-income countries that develop them and "inappropriate" elsewhere. We study this hypothesis in agriculture using data on novel plant …

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

This paper examines the impact and diffusion of the gasoline tractor in American agriculture. A key feature of the …

value of family labor, 20% below their outside option in non-agriculture …