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<br />o <br />'" \J <br />.",.. <br />\,\! <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Farm sizes used in the farm budgets for the payment capacity and benefit <br /> <br />analyses are displayed in Table 7. <br /> <br />Table 7 <br />Farm budget farm <br /> <br />sizes <br />Payment <br />capacity <br />600 <br /> <br />Benefits <br />700 <br /> <br />Farms <br />Dry farm <br />Cow-calf cash <br />Class 2 <br />Class 3 <br />Composite <br /> <br />Unit <br />Acres <br /> <br />crop <br /> <br />565 <br />660 <br /> <br />Acres <br />Acres <br />Acres <br /> <br />700 <br /> <br />The larger farm acreage used in the benefit analysis are the projected <br /> <br />farm sizes 15 to 20 years into the life of the project based on the present <br /> <br />trend of farm sizes increasing in size at a rate of about 1 percent per <br /> <br />year. <br /> <br />Payment Capacity <br /> <br />Payment capacity comes from three different sources, new land, supple- <br /> <br />mental land, and a pressure charge for pressurizing the existing non-project <br /> <br />water in project pipelines. <br /> <br />Table 8 presents a summary of the farm budget payment capacity analysis <br /> <br />for full-time service lands. Preduction of dryland wheat without the project <br /> <br />is deducted from with project conditions. Payment capacity for Class 2 and <br /> <br />Class 3 land is approximately $32 and $27, respectively. The average when <br /> <br />weighted by land class and rounded is $30 per acre or $16.11 per acre-foot. <br /> <br />This full service land payment capacity is applied to supplemental land on a <br /> <br />per acre-foot of water basis. <br />