IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/uersaw/338922.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

U.S. Soybean Production Expands Since 2002 as Farmers Adopt New Practices, Technologies

Author

Listed:
  • Vaiknoras, Kate

Abstract

U.S. soybean production accounted for more than 30 percent of the world supply in recent years. In most years, U.S. soybeans—a key source of livestock feed and an export crop—come in second in planted acreage behind corn. Since 2002, U.S. acreage planted to soybeans has increased 18 percent, growing at an average rate of about 1 percent a year. As production practices have changed, soybean yields have increased 30 percent. A USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) report published in June 2023 set out to identify and examine the drivers of those changes. Using nationally representative data from the 2002, 2006, 2012, and 2018 Agricultural Resource Management Surveys (ARMS) produced by ERS and USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), researchers tracked changes in soybean production practices over time.

Suggested Citation

  • Vaiknoras, Kate, 2023. "U.S. Soybean Production Expands Since 2002 as Farmers Adopt New Practices, Technologies," Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 2023, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersaw:338922
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.338922
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/338922/files/U.S.%20Soybean%20Production%20Expands%20Since%202002%20as%20Farmers%20Adopt%20New%20Practices%2C%20Technologies.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.338922?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:uersaw:338922. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ersgvus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.