Agricultural Productivity Growth in the United States: 1948-2015

Sun Ling Wang, Richard Nehring and Roberto Mosheim

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2018, vol. March 2018, issue 02

Abstract: Technological developments in agriculture have driven long-term growth in U.S. agricultural productivity. Innovations in animal and crop genetics, chemicals, equipment, and farm organization have enabled continuing output growth while using much less labor and farmland. As a result, total agricultural output nearly tripled between 1948 and 2015—even as the amount of labor and land used declined.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302576

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