Farmland Loss to Urban Encroachment No Threat to U.S. Agriculture

Ralph Helmlich and Marlow Vesterby

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1992, vol. 08, issue 01

Abstract: Despite the impression that housing developments, shopping centers, and office parks are replacing the country's farmland, the amount of U.S. rural land and the level of agricultural production are not threatened by present rates of urbanization, urbanization is not consuming all of our farmland, nor is it taking all the best land out of production. In fact, even in the Nation's most rapidly growing counties, the rate of urbanization has not changed significantly during the past 30 years

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310970

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