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Ranchers Adapting To Climate Variability In The Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah, Hadia Akbar
Ranchers Adapting To Climate Variability In The Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah, Hadia Akbar
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Changes in climate influence agricultural production. This study looks at the impacts of climate variability in the Utah regions of the Upper Colorado River Basin by combining regression techniques with interview data to explore how climate variability affects agricultural production and how the farmers are adapting their practices to these changes. The results show that climate does not have any significant impact on cattle and hay production in the study area on a decadal scale. However, on an annual basis temperature seems to have more impact than precipitation. Among non-climatic variables, commodity prices and their regulations by the government are …