Agricultural Production from the High Plains Aquifer Is Worth Over $3 billion per Year

Authors

Richard K. Perrin, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Lilyan E. Fulginiti, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Federico Garcia, University of the Republic, Uruguay

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!