scholarly journals Government Policy, Wind Erosion, and Economic Viability in Semi-Arid Agriculture: The Case of the Southern Texas High Plains

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Bunn
Keyword(s):  
Wind Erosion ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Farm Bill ◽  
Texas High Plains ◽  
Arid Agriculture ◽  
Semi Arid

AbstractThe 1996 farm bill challenges agricultural producers to pursue conservation objectives while allowing flexibility and reducing subsidies. The nature of this challenge for semi-arid rainfed, wind-erosion-prone agriculture is explored via a behavioral model. Simulations of farm-firm decision making under scenarios in the southern Texas High Plains are evaluated. Results indicate that the removal of subsidies, while lowering farm incomes, does not, under most assumptions, alter cropping system choice. Alternatively, under a variety of assumptions, the imposition of an erosion tax shuts down cropping.

scholarly journals The Effects of Wind Erosion Depending on Cropping System and Tillage Method in a Semi-Arid Region

Agronomy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caihong Yang ◽  
Yanxiang Geng ◽  
Xing Zhou Fu ◽  
Jeffrey A. Coulter ◽  
Qiang Chai
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Wind Velocity ◽  
Wind Erosion ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Conventional Tillage ◽  
Soil Transport ◽  
Soil Wind Erosion ◽  
Semi Arid

Wind erosion is a major environmental problem in arid and semi-arid regions, where it has significant impacts on desertification and soil degradation. To understand the effects of cropping systems and tillage methods on the reduction of soil wind erosion, wind tunnel investigations were performed on soil samples from an irrigated field in an experiment conducted in semi-arid northwestern China in 2016–2018. Three cropping systems for annual spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)/maize (Zea mays L.) strip intercropping (W/M), a two-year wheat-winter rape-maize rotation (WRM), and a two-year wheat-maize rotation (WM)) were each evaluated with two tillage methods (conventional tillage without wheat straw retention (CT) and no-tillage with 25–30 cm tall wheat straw (NT)). The mean rate of soil erosion by wind with NT was 18.9% to 36.2% less than that with CT. With increasing wind velocity, the rate of soil erosion by wind increased for both CT and NT but was faster with CT than NT. Soil wind erosion occurred with a wind velocity ≥14 m s−1, and NT greatly decreased the rate of soil erosion when wind velocity exceeded 14 m s−1. W/M, WRM, and WM with NT increased non-erodible aggregates by 53.7%, 53.7%, and 54.9% in 2017, and 51.3%, 49.6% and 44.6% in 2018, respectively, than conventional tillage. At a height of 0–20 cm, the rate of soil transport with CT decreased with increasing height. The volume of soil transport at a height of 0–4 cm and soil transport percentage at a height of 0–4 and 0–20 cm (Q0–4/Q0–20) with NT were less than with CT. These findings show that NT with cropping system intensification can be an effective strategy for resisting wind erosion in irrigated semi-arid regions, thereby reducing the negative environmental impacts of crop production.

scholarly journals Assessing the role of interseeding alfalfa into grass on improving pasture soil health in semi-arid Texas High Plains

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 103399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna B. Bhandari ◽  
Charles P. West ◽  
Veronica Acosta-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Soil Health ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Pasture Soil ◽  
Texas High Plains ◽  
Semi Arid

Comparing SEBAL ET with Lysimeter Data in the Semi-Arid Texas High Plains

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. H. Gowda ◽  
T. A. Howell ◽  
J. L. Chavez ◽  
K. S. Copeland ◽  
G. Paul
Keyword(s):  
High Plains ◽  
Texas High Plains ◽  
Semi Arid

scholarly journals Fallow replacement cover crops in a semi‐arid high plains cropping system

Crop Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Holman ◽  
Augustine K. Obour ◽  
Yared Assefa
Keyword(s):  
Cover Crops ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Semi Arid

Irrigation Management Effects on Crop Water Productivity for Maize Production in the Texas High Plains

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Gary W. Marek ◽  
Thomas H. Marek ◽  
Steven R. Evett ◽  
Yong Chen ◽  
Kevin R. Heflin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Productivity ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Crop Water ◽  
Maize Production ◽  
Crop Water Productivity ◽  
Texas High Plains ◽  
Management Effects

Forage Potential of Pearl Millet and Forage Sorghum Alternatives to Corn under the Water-Limiting Conditions of the Texas High Plains: A Review

cftm ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 190058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bishwoyog Bhattarai ◽  
Sukhbir Singh ◽  
Charles P. West ◽  
Rupinder Saini
Keyword(s):  
Pearl Millet ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Forage Sorghum ◽  
Texas High Plains

scholarly journals Potential for clean yam minisett production by resource-poor farmers in the middle-belt of Nigeria

2009 ◽  
Vol 147 (5) ◽  
pp. 589-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. MORSE ◽  
N. McNAMARA ◽  
M. ACHOLO
Keyword(s):  
Cropping System ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Treatment Results ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Gross Margin ◽  
Dioscorea Rotundata ◽  
Planting Material ◽  
White Yam ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
River Niger

SUMMARYYam minisett technique (YMT) has been promoted throughout West Africa since the 1980s as a sustainable means of producing clean yam planting material, but adoption of the technique is often reported as being patchy at best. While there has been much research on the factors that influence adoption of the technique, there have been no attempts to assess its economic viability under ‘farmer-managed’ as distinct from ‘on station’ conditions. The present paper describes the results of farmer-managed trials employing the YMT (white yam: Dioscorea rotundata) at two villages in Igalaland, Kogi State, Nigeria. One of the villages (Edeke) is on the banks of the River Niger and represents a specialist yam environment, whereas the other village (Ekwuloko) is inland, where farmers employ a more general cropping system. Four farmers were selected in each of the two villages and asked to plant a trial comprising two varieties of yam, their popular local variety as well as another variety grown in other parts of Igalaland, and to treat yam setts (80–100 g) with either woodash or insecticide/nematicide+fungicide mix (chemical treatment). Results suggest that while chemical sett treatment increased yield and hence gross margin compared with woodash, if household labour is costed then YMT is not economically viable. However, the specialist yam growers of Edeke were far more positive about the use of YMT as they tended to keep the yam seed tubers for planting rather than sell them. Thus, great care needs to be taken with planning adoption surveys on the assumption that all farmers should adopt a technology.

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