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Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture

  • by James M. MacDonald, Robert A. Hoppe and Doris Newton
  • 3/14/2018
  • EIB-189

Overview

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.

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