Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture

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英文名称：

Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture

作者：

James M. MacDonald; Robert A. Hoppe; Doris Newton

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=88056

关键词：

Farm consolidation;  large farms;  family farms;  industrial agriculture;  agribusiness;  concentration in agriculture;  Agricultural Resources Management Survey;  ARMS;  Census of Agriculture; 

年份：

2018

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

61 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

Crop production has seen a widespread and persistent shift of acreage and sales to larger farming operations over the last three decades. Some livestock sectors have seen dramatic structural change, but consolidation has been modest or nonexistent in pasture/grazing land and in the associated cow-calf sector. Consolidation has been facilitated by increased farm-level commodity specialization.

See related Amber Waves article: Examining Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture.