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 …

negatively affects corn or soybean yields. We also find that it can mitigate the impact of drought on soybean yields. We explore … how wider use of conservation tillage might offset the increase in drought-induced downside risk to soybean yields under …

irrigation techniques seem not to be contributing to reduce water scarcity and increase drought resiliency. In fact, according to … appear. This basic model is expected to serve as guidance for assessing the actual outcomes of increasing irrigation …

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 …