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Socioeconomic Impacts on Agricultural Land use in the Northeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Douglas E. Morris  and
Albert E. Luloff
Douglas E. Morris
Affiliation:
Statistics and Cooperative Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N.C.
Albert E. Luloff
Affiliation:
Institute of Natural and Environmental Resources, University of New Hampshire
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Joad said, “You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.”

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Past agricultural programs encouraged the withdrawal of cropland from agricultural production. With the removal of crop acreage restrictions and despite the favorable relationships of the 1972–1974 period, all of this land has not been immediately activated into crop production. Some programs encouraged shifts of cropland to pasture, timber production, or to soil improvement uses. Land converted to these alternatives is potentially available for crop production, but whether or at what rate it will be reemployed remains problematic.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , October 1978 , pp. 67 - 74
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Published with the approval of the Director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station as Scientific Contribution Nc. 920.

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