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Protection of Agricultural Land: An Institutionalist Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

J. C. Hite  and
B. L. Dillman
J. C. Hite
Affiliation:
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
B. L. Dillman
Affiliation:
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
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For a long time, the consensus of old farmers sitting around crossroads stores has been that, sooner or later, America is going to run out of agricultural land because of all the houses, shopping centers, and highways that are spreading out onto the nation's cropland. And for years, such observations have been summarily dismissed as the ravings of ignorant men with too much time on their hands. Yet in the last half of the 1970s, a significant part of the educated elite in the United States began to suspect that those old farmers just might be correct. The farm press began to run articles concerning the loss of prime agricultural land to urban sprawl (Johnson); some of the more prestigious national journals appealing to educated laymen began to publish articles on the subject (Blundell); and even general circulation newspapers that seldom deign to print anything other than stories on political corruption or murder and mayhem devoted space to feature-length articles warning of the loss of cropland to non-agricultural uses (Burnside).

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , July 1981 , pp. 43 - 53
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1981

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