Author: William Francis Hughes
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Water and Associated Costs in the Production of Cotton and Grain Sorghum, Texas High Plains, 1955
Author: William Francis Hughes
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Research
Conservation Research Report
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Land of the Underground Rain
Author: Donald E. Green
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292772319
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is even more characteristic of its subdivision, the Texas High Plains. Settlers on the plateau were forced to use pump technology to tap the vast ground water resources—the underground rain—beneath its flat surface. The evolution from windmills to the modern high-speed irrigation pumps took place over several decades. Three phases characterized the movement toward irrigation. In the period from 1910 to 1920, large-volume pumping plants first appeared in the region, but, due to national and regional circumstances, these premature efforts were largely abortive. The second phase began as a response to the drouth of the Dust Bowl and continued into the 1950s. By 1959, irrigation had become an important aspect of the flourishing High Plains economy. The decade of the 1960s was characterized chiefly by a growing alarm over the declining ground water table caused by massive pumping, and by investigations of other water sources. Land of the Underground Rain is a study in human use and threatened exhaustion of the High Plains' most valuable natural resource. Ground water was so plentiful that settlers believed it flowed inexhaustibly from some faraway place or mysteriously from a giant underground river. Whatever the source, they believed that it was being constantly replenished, and until the 1950s they generally opposed effective conservation of ground water. A growing number of weak and dry wells then made it apparent that Plains residents were "mining" an exhaustible resource. The Texas High Plains region has been far more successful in exploiting its resource than in conserving it. The very success of its pump technology has produced its environmental crisis. The problem brought about by the threatened exhaustion of this resource still awaits a solution. This study is the first comprehensive history of irrigation on the Texas High Plains, and it is the first comprehensive treatment of the development of twentieth-century pump irrigation in any area of the United States.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292772319
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is even more characteristic of its subdivision, the Texas High Plains. Settlers on the plateau were forced to use pump technology to tap the vast ground water resources—the underground rain—beneath its flat surface. The evolution from windmills to the modern high-speed irrigation pumps took place over several decades. Three phases characterized the movement toward irrigation. In the period from 1910 to 1920, large-volume pumping plants first appeared in the region, but, due to national and regional circumstances, these premature efforts were largely abortive. The second phase began as a response to the drouth of the Dust Bowl and continued into the 1950s. By 1959, irrigation had become an important aspect of the flourishing High Plains economy. The decade of the 1960s was characterized chiefly by a growing alarm over the declining ground water table caused by massive pumping, and by investigations of other water sources. Land of the Underground Rain is a study in human use and threatened exhaustion of the High Plains' most valuable natural resource. Ground water was so plentiful that settlers believed it flowed inexhaustibly from some faraway place or mysteriously from a giant underground river. Whatever the source, they believed that it was being constantly replenished, and until the 1950s they generally opposed effective conservation of ground water. A growing number of weak and dry wells then made it apparent that Plains residents were "mining" an exhaustible resource. The Texas High Plains region has been far more successful in exploiting its resource than in conserving it. The very success of its pump technology has produced its environmental crisis. The problem brought about by the threatened exhaustion of this resource still awaits a solution. This study is the first comprehensive history of irrigation on the Texas High Plains, and it is the first comprehensive treatment of the development of twentieth-century pump irrigation in any area of the United States.
Bibliography of Agriculture
Hydrology, Conservation, and Management of Runoff Water in Playas on the Southern High Plains
Author: Victor L. Hauser
Publisher:
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Category : High Plains
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : High Plains
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Bulletin
Bulletin - Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Author: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
A Survey of University Business and Economic Research Reports ...
Author: United States. Small Business Administration
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Economics of Water Management for Cotton and Grain Sorghum Production, High Plains
Author: William Francis Hughes
Publisher:
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Improved water management affords an alternative to the measures commonly used to offset the effects of a declining water supply. In many situations, where the continued decline in water levels has offset the increase in water supply from new wells, lowered pumps and installation of undergrowund delivery systems, a changed water management program may be the only means of avoiding a return to dryland farming. Because of competition for water during the first 2 weeds of August, the independently developed cotton and grain sorghum irrigation practices that maximize yields cannot be advantageously combined on the same form. Therefore, the management program must be modified to minimize the effects of competing demands for water. Four alternative water management systems may be followed if the operator prepares for them in advance. These alternatives, designated in this report as water management systems 1, 2, 3 and 4, differ only after August 1. With system 1, which uses the smallest amount of water, only cotton is irrigated after August 1. With system 2. which uses a little more water than system 1, a full-season hybrid sorghum is the only crop irrigated after August 1. System 3 combines the cotton irrigation program of system 1 with irrigation of sorghum hybrids planted about July 1. In system 4, the first water application on the full-season sorghum hybrids is made as in system 2, after which the water is shifted to the late-planted sorghum hybrids. Since systems 3 and 4 are heavy water users, they should not be used regularly. (...).
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Improved water management affords an alternative to the measures commonly used to offset the effects of a declining water supply. In many situations, where the continued decline in water levels has offset the increase in water supply from new wells, lowered pumps and installation of undergrowund delivery systems, a changed water management program may be the only means of avoiding a return to dryland farming. Because of competition for water during the first 2 weeds of August, the independently developed cotton and grain sorghum irrigation practices that maximize yields cannot be advantageously combined on the same form. Therefore, the management program must be modified to minimize the effects of competing demands for water. Four alternative water management systems may be followed if the operator prepares for them in advance. These alternatives, designated in this report as water management systems 1, 2, 3 and 4, differ only after August 1. With system 1, which uses the smallest amount of water, only cotton is irrigated after August 1. With system 2. which uses a little more water than system 1, a full-season hybrid sorghum is the only crop irrigated after August 1. System 3 combines the cotton irrigation program of system 1 with irrigation of sorghum hybrids planted about July 1. In system 4, the first water application on the full-season sorghum hybrids is made as in system 2, after which the water is shifted to the late-planted sorghum hybrids. Since systems 3 and 4 are heavy water users, they should not be used regularly. (...).