For the southern high plains in particular, if consumption continues into the future as it did between 1997 and 2007, the aquifer there will be unable to support irrigation for about 35 percent of ...

In the Southern High Plains, groundwater levels have fallen more than 150 feet. At the Nebraska end of the High Plains Aquifer, levels are virtually unchanged from the pre-irrigation era.

Sparse population, a semiarid climate, and abundant groundwater turned the southern High Plains into the world’s feedlot capital. A single quarter-pound hamburger requires about 460 gallons of ...

AMARILLO -- Six publications analyzing the water use of the crop and livestock industry in the Southern Ogallala Aquifer region have been completed by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialists.

In some places, the dry-up has already happened. “There are ghost towns in the southern High Plains right now — today,” says Bill Mullican, a former executive at the Texas Water Development Board.

In the central and southern parts of the High Plains some declines exceeded 100 feet. Concerned public officials turned to the U.S. Geological Survey, which has studied the aquifer since the early ...

Are the tens of thousands of playa lakes that dot the Southern High Plains key to keeping the Ogallala Aquifer's dwindling waters clean? That's the question plant physiologists are asking about ...

The expansive water source, called the High Plains aquifer by geologists, supports around $35 billion worth of crops a year, according to the Agriculture Department’s National Institute of Food ...

Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. Content on 'high plains aquifer' ... Farmers across the central and southern Plains are drawing down the underground reserves they have long relied on to ...

High-oil varieties. Cason said the high-oil breeding program has three goals for the new cultivars. The first is to increase the oil content. Cason said the new high-oil varieties will be around ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – Parched for months, fired by yet another unforgiving heatwave, piled with wind-scattered topsoil and ash, the hard-packed clay of the High Plains resembled less … ...

For example, they look at the southern High Plains, where about 30% of cropland is irrigated with water from the Ogallala aquifer. In some but not all cases, ...