Resource and Environmental Effects of U.S. Agriculture

Pierre R. Crosson, Sterling Brubaker

Preface: Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction 2. Projections of Production of Grains, Soybeans, and Cotton in the United States 3. Factors Affecting Farmers’ Choices among Technologies: Prices of Inputs 4. Trends in Productivity and Crop Yields in the United States 5. The Demand for and Supply of Cropland Introduction 6. Projections of Fertilizers and Pesticides 7. Environmental Impacts of Projected Production and Resource Use 8. Policy Considerations; Appendixes to Chapter 2: Deprivation of Projections Production; Appendix A to Chapter 4: Analysis of Trends in Crop Yields; Appendix B to Chapter 4: Trends in Total Agricultural Productivity; Appendix to Chapter 5: Material Relating to the Demand for and supply of Cropland; Index