The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy

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Economic Factors Affecting Diversified Farming Systems (2013, background): “Key Words: agriculture; diversified farming systems; economics”
Drivers of decoupling and recoupling of crop and livestock systems at farm and territorial scales (2020, background): “From 1900 to 2002, U.S. farms went from producing (on average) five agricultural commodities per farm to just a single commodity per farm (Dimitri et al. 2005).”
Crisis? What Crisis? The Normality of the Current Food Crisis (2010, neutral): “The number of horses and mules on US farms, for instance, plummeted from 12 million in 1945 to 2 million in 1960, while the number of tractors doubled (Dimitri et al. 2005).”
Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in the U.S. Corn Belt (2007, background): “The commodity specificity and income support characteristics of U.S. farm policy have also affected the pace of those changes in American agriculture (Dimitri et al., 2005).”
Profile of Hired Farmworkers, A 2008 Update (2012, background): “Post World War II American agriculture has been characterized by increases in labor productivity, brought about through technological innovation (Dimitri et al., 2005; Fuglie et al., 2007).”