Agricultural Economics Department
Cornhusker Economics
Date of this Version
11-11-2018
Document Type
Article
Citation
agecon.unl.edu/cornhuskereconomics
Abstract
Recent research (Garcia, Fulginiti and Perrin, 2018) has shown the that the extra agricultural production from irrigation across the High Plains Aquifer (HPA) was worth about $3.5 billion in 2007, $2 billion of which was produced in Nebraska. The aquifer water is valuable!