Part-Farm General Cropland Retirement: Effects of Some Alternative Program Specifications
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, comm...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of agricultural and applied economics 1970-12, Vol.2 (1), p.97-101 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1074-0708 0081-3052 2056-7405 0081-3052 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0081305200009870 |