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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 ,
Lloyd D. Teigen  and
Joseph C. Purcell
B. R. Eddleman
Affiliation:
Mississippi State University
Lloyd D. Teigen
Affiliation:
NED, ERS, USDA
Joseph C. Purcell
Affiliation:
Georgia Experiment Station, Experiment, Georgia
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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
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , December 1982 , pp. 1 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1982

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