Download or read book Agriculture On The High Plains of Texas written by Samantha Yates & Hudson Borgstedt (Dr. Darren) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agriculture on the High Plains of Texas written by Samantha Yates Borgstedt and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American agriculture has long been the most productive agricultural center in the world, producing key food and fiber ingredients for the rest of the world. But agriculture has been attacked on many fronts as being a polluting, environmentally unfriendly, big multinational corporation dominated industry. Over time, those charges have been repeated enough that they are believed by the American public. Like all industries, you can always find examples of abuses and mistakes. However, the truth is most often much different than what has been reported in the media. In this book, we wish to draw attention to the agriculture that we see on a daily basis. In particular, agriculture is family oriented, with families making up the clear preponderance of American agriculture. We will shed light on the diversity of production systems, business strategies, and roles of support industries through a series of personal stories and pictures. These stories reflect a microcosm of the broader world of farming, ranching, and agribusiness through the very personal stories of the families, businesses, and communities involved in feeding and clothing the world. We focus on the Texas High Plains because it is a diverse production area, with many crops and livestock operations, organic and conventional farming, conservation techniques, and broad array of business structures that can serve to inform and educate about the true American agriculture. And while we hope you learn something about where your food and fiber come from, we also hope that you can come to feel the love these people have for their way of life and appreciate their struggle. First, we want to lay the groundwork so the readers can appreciate the material in this book and dispel a few myths about agriculture along the way.
Download or read book High Plains Farm written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After thirty-three years, Paula Chamlee returned home to photograph and write about the farm where she grew up on the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle. This document provides a look at her home place and reveals a way of life and value system that are quickly vanishing. It attempts to evoke the flavour of farm life in the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Seventies a Decade of Change in the Texas High Plains written by Wyatte L. Harman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract: Changes in regional and national economic factors, farm policies, and declining underground water supplies during the past decade have been instrumental in continuing the dynamic forces of adjustment in the Texas High Plains. Specific events, such as the rapid growth of the feeder cattle industry, sharp increases in crop production costs, and on-again/off-again government acreage controls have caused extensive producer adjustments in cropping patterns, irrigation practices, farm size, and tenure. Of particular significance is the dramatic rise in energy costs which has severely impacted energy-intensive irrigated agriculture on the Texas High Plains.
Download or read book On The Great Plains written by Geoff Cunfer and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To support his theory, Cunfer looks at the entire Great Plains (450 counties in ten states), tapping historical agricultural census data paired with GIS mapping to illuminate land use on the Great Plains over 130 years. Coupled with several community and family case studies, this database allows Cunfer to reassess the interaction between farmers and nature in the Great Plains agricultural landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Economic Implications of Water related Technologies for Agriculture written by John R. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Population Economic and Agricultural Data for the Texas High Plains written by John Perrin and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Plains written by Walter Prescott Webb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers
Download or read book A Spatiotemporal Economic Analysis of Crop Production in the Texas High Plains written by Aminun Naher and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas High Plains is one of the most prolific crop-producing areas in the United States. Agriculture plays a vital role in the economy of this region. The agricultural industry in this area faces various challenges: environmental, economic, etc. Due to extreme weather conditions and climate change, crop production in the Texas High plains is facing a great threat. Crop production needs irrigation water. The primary source of irrigation water in this region is the Ogallala Aquifer. The saturated thickness of this aquifer is being depleted day by day, which is a big concern for the irrigation of crop production (Guerrero et al., 2019). A survey of the literature shows that few studies have investigated the cropping pattern for a specific crop based on production amount, but there is no study that broadly investigated the cropping pattern based on harvested acres for this region. So, it is important for policy purposes to investigate the spatiotemporal change of cropping patterns in this region. The main objective of this research is to visualize the historical change of cropping patterns in the Texas High Plains from the standpoint of geographical concentration and spatial autocorrelation. Historical county-level agricultural census data were collected from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistical Services (NASS) from 1978 to 2017. Exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques were employed to examine the geographical concentration and the spatial dependence of crop production among nearby locations. Results of temporal changes indicate that harvested acres and the number of farms trend down through the study period. Maps were generated for each variable of interest which shows how much cropland acres have changed over time. The Gini coefficient and the quantiles of size distributions were computed for all variables of interest to analyze the change in geographical distribution. Total harvested cropland acres were nearly uniformly distributed across the 39 counties whereas irrigated harvested cropland acres were concentrated in a smaller number of counties, which is an indication of the change in geographical concentration in the Texas High Plains. Both total and irrigated harvested corn, cotton, sorghum grain, and wheat acreages were concentrated in a smaller number of counties over time while wheat production was mostly concentrated in the northern part of the region. The number of acres harvested for a specific crop relative to the number of total cropland acres show that most counties had more than 50 percent of its harvested cropland as cotton indicating that cotton is the prominent crop in the Texas High Plains. The percentage of acres of irrigated harvested cropland relative to total harvested cropland acreage has decreased over time. The Moran’s I test statistics for both irrigated and non-irrigated cropland areas suggest that there was spatial dependence among the neighboring counties in the production of crops in this region. In summary, there was a spatiotemporal change in cropping patterns in the Texas High Plains over the study period.
Download or read book As a Farm Woman Thinks written by Nellie Witt Spikes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selected weekly columns by Nellie Witt Spikes, published in small-town Texas newspapers from 1930-1960, describe farm life on the Texas Panhandle, along with the region's culture and natural history. Organized topically and then chronologically, with commentary by the editor; contains historical photographs"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Texas High Plains written by Vernon D. Lansford and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report Texas Department of Water Resources written by Texas. Department of Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Farm Labor Situation in Texas written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Texas Oklahoma High Plains written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Groundwater Irrigation written by Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Effect on Agricultural Production of Alternative Energy Input Prices written by B. Michael Adams and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings Of Great Plains Agricultural Council written by Great Plains Agricultural Council. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1967* with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
