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Agricultural Productivity Growth in the United States: 1948-2015

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  • Wang, Sun Ling
  • Nehring, Richard
  • Mosheim, Roberto

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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.

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  • Wang, Sun Ling & Nehring, Richard & Mosheim, Roberto, 2018. "Agricultural Productivity Growth in the United States: 1948-2015," Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 0(02), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersaw:302576
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302576
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    1. E. Grifell-Tatjé & C. A. K. Lovell, 2019. "Dual Productivity Analysis: A Konüs/Shephard Approach," CEPA Working Papers Series WP102019, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    2. John Stephen Agbenyo, 2020. "The Structural Change Theory – An Analysis of Success and Failures of Technology," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 4(1), pages 01-05, January.
    3. Grifell-Tatjé, E. & Lovell, C.A.K., 2021. "Dual productivity analysis: A Konüs/Shephard approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 289(1), pages 328-337.
    4. Michael A. Gunderson, 2019. "Transitioning to the Long Term : Agricultural Symposium 2019," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, issue Special I, pages 85-101, July.

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