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Cotton Irrigation Tool

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posted on 2024-02-13, 13:40 authored by Steven A. Mauget, Gary L. Leiker, Shyam S. Nair

Dropping Ogallala aquifer levels and changing commodity prices and energy costs make irrigation management an important but uncertain issue to west Texas cotton producers. For example, is deficit or full irrigation more profitable under the current lint price and pumping cost conditions? Also, what is the best way to divide production into dryland and irrigated acreage with limited well capacity? To help producers answer these questions this web application estimates the effects of irrigation on the profitability of center pivot cotton production on the Southern High Plains. It's main purpose is to show the impact of irrigation on yield and the related effects on both profits per acre and profits over a center pivot area with combined dryland and irrigated production.


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Funding

USDA-ARS

History

Data contact name

Mauget, Steve

Data contact email

Steven.Mauget@ars.usda.gov

Publisher

United States Department of Agriculture

Temporal Extent Start Date

2013-10-01

Theme

  • Not specified

Geographic Coverage

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ISO Topic Category

  • farming

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

aquifers; commodity prices; energy costs; Texas; irrigation rates; lint cotton; arid lands; acreage; profitability; crop production; profits and margins; field experimentation; rain; seed yield; databases; crop models; decision support systems; meteorological data; weather stations; summer; growing season; lint yield; models; probability distribution; climate; computer software

OMB Bureau Code

  • 005:18 - Agricultural Research Service

OMB Program Code

  • 005:040 - National Research

Primary article PubAg Handle

Pending citation

  • No

Public Access Level

  • Public

Preferred dataset citation

Mauget, Steven A.; Leiker, Gary L.; Nair, Shyam S. (2019). Cotton Irrigation Tool. United States Department of Agriculture.

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    Keywords

    irrigationTexascottonOnline databasedata.govARS

    Licence

    CC0

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