@article{Sloggett:308000,
      recid = {308000},
      author = {Sloggett, Gordon},
      title = {Energy and U.S. Agriculture:  Irrigation Pumping, 1974-83   },
      address = {1985-12},
      number = {1473-2020-1505},
      series = {Agricultural Economic Report No. 545},
      pages = {49},
      year = {1985},
      abstract = {U.S. land irrigated with onfarm pumped water increased by  9.5 million acres to 44.5 million acres from 1974 to 1983.   Higher energy prices increased energy pumping costs from  $551 million to $2.5 billion.  Pump irrigators applied  energy-saving technologies such as low-pressure center  pivots, which alone saved about $72 million in 1983.   Favorable economic conditions could lead to 3 to 4 million  additional pump-irrigated acres in the water-short Great  Plains by the year 2020 and significant increases in the  more humid Eastern States.  This report, the fourth in a  series, updates the 1980 irrigation estimates and focuses  on 1983 pump-irrigated farmland, prospects for irrigation,  and fuel costs. },
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/308000},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.308000},
}