Download or read book Water and Associated Costs in the Production of Cotton and Grain Sorghum Texas High Plains 1955 written by William Francis Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hydrology Conservation and Management of Runoff Water in Playas on the Southern High Plains written by Victor L. Hauser and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land of the Underground Rain written by Donald E. Green and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Toward Meeting Soil and Water Conservation Research Needs written by United States. Agricultural Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics of Water Management for Cotton and Grain Sorghum Production High Plains written by William Francis Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. (...).
Download or read book A Survey of University Business and Economic Research Reports written by United States. Small Business Administration and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Survey of University Business and Economic Research Reports written by University of Texas. Bureau of Business Research and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics of Water Management for Cotton and Grain Sorghum Production High Plains written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book General Economic Aspects of Utilization of Underground Water for Irrigation in High Plains of Texas written by Texas Tech University. Department of Economics and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
