WSP05213

• File Number: 8407
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 3/1/1982
• Author: Arthur D Little Inc
• Title: Six State High Plains-Ogallala Aquifer Regional Resources Study - Study Element B-2 - National and Regional Price Impact Assessment
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Tab 1 e II -13: Potenti al Cropl and Under Two Price-cost Ratio Assumptions, 1977

Ratio of Price Received by Farm~rs to Prices Pai~_
Rellion Q ?/ 11 ?, / - -.----
High Medium High Medium
Potential Potential Potential Potential

(million acres)
Northeast 1.1 4,2 2,5 2.8
Lake 2.3 6.3 4.3 4,3
Corn Belt 4,9 9,7 8.1 6.5
No. Plains 5,1 12.8 8.5 9.4
Appa 1 ac hi an 4.7 9.8 9.1 5,4
Southeast 4.9 10,9 9.4 6,4
Delta 3,1 7,0 6.4 3.7
So. Plains 5.2 14.8 8.5 11.5
Mountain 3.2 11.1 7.0 7,3
Pacific 1.6 3.9 1.4 4,1

48 Contiguous States 36.1

90.5

65.2

61.4

1/ 1967" 100
2/ 1977 SCS--National Resource Inventory (NRI)
3/ 1975 SCS-PCS adjusted for cropland increases 1975-1977 and
using 1977 SCS-NRI estimates of medium potential land.
Source: Linda Lee. A Perspective on Cropland Availabil ity.

ESCS Ag, Econ. Rpt. No. 406, 1978, p. 17

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