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Productivity in U.S. Food and Agriculture: Implications for Research and Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

B. R. Eddleman
Affiliation:
Mississippi State University
Lloyd D. Teigen
Affiliation:
NED, ERS, USDA
Joseph C. Purcell
Affiliation:
Georgia Experiment Station, Experiment, Georgia

Extract

Increased demand for U.S. farm exports—primarily food grains, feed grains, and oil crops—emerged as an important factor influencing food and agricultural research and education in the 1970s. Maintaining producers' revenue remained as a motivating force in agricultural research.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1982

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