Evaluating U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Long-Term Forecasts for U.S. Harvested Area
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Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2021-03-08 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-FOR-2021-03-08 (Forecasting)
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