Abstract: U.S. farmers increased double-cropped acreage from 5.8 to 12.4 million acres during 1974-82, from 1.9 percent of all acres harvested in 1974 to nearly 4 percent in 1982. Double cropping v^as expanding because of rising commodity prices and producers' adoption of advanced technologies in plant varieties and farming practices. Appalachia, the Delta States, and the Southeast shovi^ed the sharpest growth in double cropping, partly because grov^ing seasons there are relatively long. Double cropping declined after 1982 because of weak soybean prices. Government-sponsored idhng of some wheat acreage that would otherwise have been double cropped, and unfavorable weather in several important double-cropping areas
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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