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Trends In Double Cropping

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  • Hexem, Roger W.
  • Boxley, Robert F.

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U.S. farmers increased double-cropped acreage from 5.8 to 12.4 million acres during 1974-82, from 1.9 percent of all acres harvested in 1974 to nearly 4 percent in 1982. Double cropping was expanding because of rising commodity prices and producers' adoption of advanced technologies in plant varieties and farming practices. Appalachia, the Delta States, and the Southeast showed the sharpest growth in double cropping, partly because growing seasons there are relatively long. Double cropping declined after 1982 because of weak soybean prices. Government-sponsored idling of some wheat acreage that would otherwise have been double cropped, and unfavorable weather in several important double-cropping areas.

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  • Hexem, Roger W. & Boxley, Robert F., 1986. "Trends In Double Cropping," Agricultural Economic Reports 308007, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:308007
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.308007
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    1. Harper, Jayson K. & Williams, Jeffery R. & Burton, Robert O., Jr. & Kelley, Kenneth W., 1990. "Double-Cropping Soybeans Into Traditional Crop Rotations Under Government Commodity Program Restrictions," Staff Papers 133766, Kansas State University, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    2. Williams, Jeffery R. & Crisostomo, Mario F. & Burton, Robert O., Jr. & Kelley, Kenneth W. & Llewelyn, Richard V., 1989. "A Risk Analysis of Crop Rotations in Southeast Kansas Including Double-Crop Alternatives," Staff Papers 133741, Kansas State University, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    3. Moura, Altair & Goldsmith, Peter, 2020. "The Drivers of the Double Cropping System Adoption in the Tropics," International Journal of Agricultural Management, Institute of Agricultural Management, vol. 9, November.

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