Cooley, Daniel J.; Smith, Steven M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
to more water intensive crops, or an expansion of cropland. However, in drought years CPIS presence does have a …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 …