Keywords

water pricing, rent seeking, agricultural economics

Abstract

Without irrigation water, agriculture in California would be little more than limited livestock grazing and some dryland farming of cereal crops. With irrigation water, California produces over 200 crops and is the leading agricultural state with nearly $4 billion in sales in 1980. The state's gross cash receipts from farm sales have consistently approached 10 percent of the U.S. total every year since 1960.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

1985

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/6552

Language

English

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Economics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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