Transference of computerized irrigation cost budget generator: the Nevada experience

• Published in: Computers and electronics in agriculture Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 161 - 165
• Main Authors: Harris, Thomas R., Glover, Michael K., Wood, Thomas S., Ulrich, Clint R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 1990; Elsevier
• Subjects: Agricultural and forest climatology and meteorology. Irrigation. Drainage; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Biological and medical sciences; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTOS; COSTS; COUT; DECISION MAKING; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General agronomy. Plant production; IRRIGATION; Irrigation. Drainage; LOGICIEL; NEVADA; PRISE DE DECISION; PROGRAMAS DE ORDENADOR; RIEGO; TOMA DE DECISIONES; United States; North America; America; Nevada; Irrigation; Experience; Pumping; Computer program; Arid environment; Example; Computerized processing; Transferability; Cost analysis; Discussion; Information transmission
• ISSN: 0168-1699; 1872-7107
• DOI: 10.1016/0168-1699(90)90030-S

With increasing energy costs, declining groundwater resources, and/or decreases in pumping plant efficiencies, irrigated producers have become more interested in their pumping costs. An effective method for analyzing irrigation costs is through the Oklahoma State University (OSU) computerized irrigation cost budget generator. However, when other land grant institutions attempted to use the OSU irrigation cost generator on their computers, the issue of computer program transferability arose. A discussion of the transfer problems of the OSU irrigation cost budget generator and the use of microcomputers to transfer the OSU algorithm are also presented.