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Land Resources for Crop Production

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  • Hexem, Roger W.
  • Krupa, Kenneth S.

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About 35 million acres not being cultivated have high potential for crop use and 117 million more have medium potential, according to the 1982 National Resources Inventory (NRI) conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Converted high potential land would increase cropland area by 8 percent over the 421 million cropland acres inventoried in 1982. The cropland base would increase 36 percent if both high and medium potential land were converted, but soil erosion could increase by just over 1 billion tons annually, nearly 20 percent above 1982. If only high potential lands were converted, the erosion increase could be only about 4 percent. Less favorable cost/price relationships for crop production since 1982, several provisions in the 1985 farm act, and change in the U.S. tax code will all tend to discourage conversions.

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  • Hexem, Roger W. & Krupa, Kenneth S., 1987. "Land Resources for Crop Production," Agricultural Economic Reports 308030, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:308030
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.308030
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    1. Vesterby, Marlow & Heimlich, Ralph E. & Krupa, Kenneth S., 1994. "Urbanization of Rural Land in the United States," Agricultural Economic Reports 308271, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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