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The purpose of this thesis was to determine the primary effects of agricultural production to the immediate area as a result of developing arid lands of the Mountain Home Desert in Ada and Elmore Counties, Idaho, for commodity production. An interview-type survey was obtained from the study area located in Ada and Canyon Counties, Idaho, for the purpose of completing partial farm budgets. Regression analysis applied to this data resulted in a unit cost curve showing slight economies of size for large farm acreages as opposed to smaller acreages. The unit cost curve was incorporated in the objective function of a linear programming model utilizing land, labor, and water as real restrictions. Artificial resources were Included in the activity analysis as restrictions to determine the optimum allocation of these resources for commodity production on 160, 320, 480, and 640 acre model farms. The outcome showed that the allocation of the resources for commodity production resulted in positive net returns for the three larger model farms. Also the activity analysis resulted in water being the most limiting resource. But the value of the irrigation water was shown to be comparable to water costs of other Southern Idaho irrigation areas. Projections of Income and population changes resulting from primary agricultural production on the project lands were also estimated. The data of the activity analysis were adapted to aparametric linear programming analysis to research the effect of varying potato and sugar beet commodity prices has on the resource allocation and production plans of the model feme. The conclusion of this analysis was that production of these two commodities is stable as large commodity price changes are necessary to alter the current resource allocation for changes in the production of either potatoes or sugar I beets.

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Title:
Analysis of irrigated agricultural development, Mountain Home division, southwest Idaho water development project
Authors:
Reid, Richard Lee
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1973-02
Description:
The purpose of this thesis was to determine the primary effects of agricultural production to the immediate area as a result of developing arid lands of the Mountain Home Desert in Ada and Elmore Counties, Idaho, for commodity production. An interview-type survey was obtained from the study area located in Ada and Canyon Counties, Idaho, for the purpose of completing partial farm budgets. Regression analysis applied to this data resulted in a unit cost curve showing slight economies of size for large farm acreages as opposed to smaller acreages. The unit cost curve was incorporated in the objective function of a linear programming model utilizing land, labor, and water as real restrictions. Artificial resources were Included in the activity analysis as restrictions to determine the optimum allocation of these resources for commodity production on 160, 320, 480, and 640 acre model farms. The outcome showed that the allocation of the resources for commodity production resulted in positive net returns for the three larger model farms. Also the activity analysis resulted in water being the most limiting resource. But the value of the irrigation water was shown to be comparable to water costs of other Southern Idaho irrigation areas. Projections of Income and population changes resulting from primary agricultural production on the project lands were also estimated. The data of the activity analysis were adapted to aparametric linear programming analysis to research the effect of varying potato and sugar beet commodity prices has on the resource allocation and production plans of the model feme. The conclusion of this analysis was that production of these two commodities is stable as large commodity price changes are necessary to alter the current resource allocation for changes in the production of either potatoes or sugar I beets.
Subjects:
surveys resource allocation regression analysis
Location:
Mountain Home
Latitude:
43.14
Longitude:
-115.68
Collection:
IWRRI
IWRRI number:
197340
Rights:
Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/
Publisher:
University of Idaho
Contributing Institution:
University of Idaho
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf
Cataloger:
wbv
Date Digitized:
2012

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"Analysis of irrigated agricultural development, Mountain Home division, southwest Idaho water development project", Idaho Waters Digital Library, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/iwdl/items/iwdl-reid_1973.html
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