The usefulness of FCIC multiple peril crop insurance on diversified, irrigated, high yielding farms in the Imperial Valley is examined. Production data and expected price and yield distributions were collected from thirty-two farm managers in 1982. Individual whole-farm net income distributions...

Estimating the demand curve for farm irrigation water is a matter of serious concern in most of the Western States today and may be so in portions of the humid East in the near future. Farmers and other users have filed claims to all readily available streamflow, and private and public agencies...

As farms become larger and more specialized, questions of the relationships between costs and income as affected by size become more important. This report on cost-size relations on irrigated cotton farms in the San Joaquin Valley, Calif., shows that the smaller farms, within the range of size...