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<br />Ou035~J <br /> <br />TASK ASSIGNMENTS <br /> <br />Element tasks will include: <br /> <br />A-I.I Review crop budgets for different years and different parts of the <br />High Plains; compile data on land classification and land uses <br /> <br />A-l.2 Evaluate previously developed agricultural simulation and linear <br />programming models <br /> <br />A-I. 3 Develop, with the General Contractor, consistent interstate as- <br />sumptions of cost-price relationships for different crops and <br />livestock <br /> <br />A-I. 4 Develop, with the General Contractor, consistent interstate a s- <br />sumptions of projected fixed and variable cost components-pro- <br />viding for variation in energy and water costs and constraints <br /> <br />A-I. 5 Develop, with the General Contractor, consistent interstate as- <br />sumptions of publ1c policies, yield trends, and variability for crop <br />and livestock production <br /> <br />A-I.6 Develop reasonably consistent model structures among the states <br /> <br />A-I. 7 Assemble and verify baseline data on agricultural and irrigation <br />management practices, yields, agricultural output, employment <br />and income, fixed and variable costs, etc. <br /> <br />A-I. 8 Test and refine models <br /> <br />A-I.9 Simulate agricultural production under the varying assumptions de- <br />veloped in Tasks A-I.3 and 4 and 5, and the alternative development <br />strategies formulated by the General Contractor with the concurrence <br />of the High Plains Study Council <br /> <br />, <br />A-I.lO Project agricultural output, values, costs, farm employment, income, <br />and water demand for the High Plains area of each state under alter- <br />native development strategies; project irrigation water demands and <br />payment capacity for supplemental water for those strategies invol- <br />ving augmentation of supply. <br /> <br />- ~ {- <br />