Preliminary Plans for Projecting Productive Capacity of the U.S. Farm Subsector

The 1973 ERS Productive Capacity Study – Limitations of the ERS Productive Capacity Study – Improving ERS's Projections of the Future Farm Subsector Productive Capacity – University Cooperation – Conceptualization and Definition of Productive Capacity – Farm Subsector Productive Capacity in an Intermediate and Long Range Perspective – Physical Capacity for Aggregate and Major Commodity Farm Output Under the Projected Agricultural Baseline – Productive Capacity Sub-Scenarios – Evaluating the Potential for Converting Additional Land to Crop Production – Productive Capacity Projections and Technological Change – Candidates for Unprecedented Technologies – Impact of Adverse Weather on Productive Capacity – Excess Productive Capacity – Impact of Inflation and/or Other Cost of Production Considerations on Productive Capacity – Regional Perspective on Productive Capacity Projections – The State Distribution of Production NIRAP Component – Commodity or Aggregate Farm Output Supply-Demand Program Component of the NIRAP System – ERS Productive Capacity Research Steering Committee – Preliminary Program Evaluation And Review Techniques (PERT) Activities for Productive Capacity Analysis.