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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />'. <br />I <br />I <br />, I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />002248 <br /> <br />associated with economic and social enterprises but who were simi- <br />larly involved before irrigation development occurred. Thus, <br />having lived in an era of dryland agriculture in these localities <br />and having experienced the impacts of growth due to irrigated crop <br />production, they are well-suited to judge the likely adjustments <br />in transition back to dryland farming and are best able to judge <br />the rates at which such adjustments are likely to happen. <br />This modified approach is a qualitative analysis, to be sure, <br />rather than quantitative. However, the latter type of analysis <br />has been conducted on a region-wide aggregate scale by all six <br />States under their Study Elements A-l and A-3 research, with de- <br />tailed, computerized statistical computations and projections, <br />augmented by the UoS. Department of Agriculture National-Inter- <br />regional Agricultural Production (NIRAP) model applied in the <br />General Contractors Study Elements B-2 and B-7. These efforts <br />quantify estimated or simulated farm production shifts and related <br />off-farm economic impacts in future years. <br />Thus, the relationship to other studies and the usefulness of <br />the B-9, Dryland Farming Assessment, method of analysis is clear. <br />It was originally and remains a "stand-alone" assessment, a good <br />practical and realistic study of actual conditions in the field. <br />It was not, however, designed as a check on the validity of results <br />that emerge from the more interrelated and integrated A-l and A-3 <br />research efforts of the several States, coupled with the B-2 and B-7 <br />efforts of the General Contractor. The case study areas selected <br /> <br />III-5 <br /> <br />Arthur D Little.lnc <br />