Progress of Farm Mechanization

Martin R. Cooper, Glen T. Barton and Albert P. Brodell

No 314796, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Excerpt from the report: Farm mechanization has made striking progress, and this progress, more than any other single thing, enabled American farmers to produce the large volume of agricultural products that helped so much to win World War II. Some of the future potentialities of mechanization cannot be fully measured at this time. Others seem almost assured for the next farming generation. This publication keynotes the place of farm mechanization in the greatest of all farm production jobs, and analyzes the influences of mechanization on farm employment, on efficiencies in production, and on production costs and returns of agriculture.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 106
Date: 1947-10
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.314796

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