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High-lift pumping at the impact upon economic development of desert land in Idaho. Research technical completion report, project A-002-IDA Item Info

This study was conducted in the Dry Lake area at Nampa, Idaho, where 5 or 6 companies are pumping irrigation water from the Snake River to a plateau 500 to 600 feet above the river surface. Data was secured for 8 farms by interviewing each farm operator and land owner. To make comparisons between farms and also between enterprises, the data was broken down into per acre variable costs, fixed costs, total returns, net income and the cost of producing a dollar's worth of output. The term 'cost per dollar of output' is the ratio of costs to returns. This ratio makes it possible to compare high-valued crops with low-valued crops on a per acre basis. This is a very sensitive measurement. For example, one cent change in the ratio for potato enterprise means a change in net income of $3.25 per acre. The budgeting method o f estimating water values in irrigation was used in this study. Long-run planning cost curves were estimated from the budgets by using (curvi-linear) regression. From the regression equations for each of the four enterprises (grain, sugar beets, potatoes and alfalfa seed), 12 model farms were constructed. The long-run average total cost curve for the model farms, which incorporates a long-run rotation and long-run price and yield expectations, indicated economies of size up to a farm size o f 2,400 acres. Net income -- the measurement of how much money is left over to pay for irrigation water after all expenses, including remuneration for management, land and investment, have been paid -- varied from about $50 t o $57 per acre for all model farms.

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High-lift pumping at the impact upon economic development of desert land in Idaho. Research technical completion report, project A-002-IDA
Authors:
Lindeborg, K.H.
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1970-12
Description:
This study was conducted in the Dry Lake area at Nampa, Idaho, where 5 or 6 companies are pumping irrigation water from the Snake River to a plateau 500 to 600 feet above the river surface. Data was secured for 8 farms by interviewing each farm operator and land owner. To make comparisons between farms and also between enterprises, the data was broken down into per acre variable costs, fixed costs, total returns, net income and the cost of producing a dollar's worth of output. The term 'cost per dollar of output' is the ratio of costs to returns. This ratio makes it possible to compare high-valued crops with low-valued crops on a per acre basis. This is a very sensitive measurement. For example, one cent change in the ratio for potato enterprise means a change in net income of $3.25 per acre. The budgeting method o f estimating water values in irrigation was used in this study. Long-run planning cost curves were estimated from the budgets by using (curvi-linear) regression. From the regression equations for each of the four enterprises (grain, sugar beets, potatoes and alfalfa seed), 12 model farms were constructed. The long-run average total cost curve for the model farms, which incorporates a long-run rotation and long-run price and yield expectations, indicated economies of size up to a farm size o f 2,400 acres. Net income -- the measurement of how much money is left over to pay for irrigation water after all expenses, including remuneration for management, land and investment, have been paid -- varied from about $50 t o $57 per acre for all model farms.
Subjects:
irrigation practices irrigation efficiency cost-benefit analysis
Location:
Nampa
Latitude:
43.57
Longitude:
-116.56
Collection:
Boise Basin
Series:
Water for Idaho
IWRRI number:
197010
Rights:
Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/
Publisher:
University of Idaho
Contributing Institution:
University of Idaho
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf
Cataloger:
wbv
Date Digitized:
2012

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