The Uses to Which We Put Our Land

Hugh H. Wooten and James R. Anderson

No 344209, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Total acreage in crops in the United States declined from 478 million to 465 million between 1949 and 1954, while areas in urban use increased by 831,000 acres each year in that period. Competing demands for land are particularly acute in good farming areas where urban expansion has been rapid. Urbanization and transportation are the greatest users of good level farmland, and accounted in 1954 for two-fifths of the land in nonagricultural use. The major uses of land in 1954 were: Cropland, including 66 million acres of cropland used only for pasture, 465 million acres; pasture and grazing land, 934 million acres, of which 633 million acres were open grassland and 301 million acres were woodland and forest land; forest not pastured, 314 million acres; special uses, such as urban areas, highways, parks, and other public facilities, 110 million acres; and miscellaneous other land, 81 million acres.

Keywords: Land; Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10
Date: 1958
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.344209

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