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Part-Farm General Cropland Retirement: Effects of Some Alternative Program Specifications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

George D. Irwin ,
Jerry A. Sharples  and
John H. Berry
George D. Irwin
Affiliation:
Lafayette, Indiana
Jerry A. Sharples
Affiliation:
Lafayette, Indiana
John H. Berry
Affiliation:
Urbana, Illinois
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The impact of technological advance in reducing the need for agricultural land has been more or less recognized since at least the early 1950s. After experiments with general cropland retirement in the 1956-60 Conservation Reserve Program, U. S. farm policy turned to annual acreage adjustments, commodity by commodity. Now farm policy proposals once again include the general cropland retirement approach, either alone or in combination with annual commodity programs.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , December 1970 , pp. 97 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1970

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