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The Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture: Dualism Out, Industrialism In
Author(s) -
Albrecht Don E.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1997.tb00660.x
Subject(s) - dualism , agriculture , great depression , depression (economics) , industrial revolution , spanish civil war , rural area , agricultural economics , scale (ratio) , economic history , geography , political science , economic geography , development economics , economics , archaeology , cartography , law , philosophy , epistemology , macroeconomics
Between 1982 and 1992, trends in farm structural change resumed patterns that had existed from the Great Depression to the 1970s. That is, farms became fewer and larger. By 1992, the number of American farms declined below two million for the first time since the Civil War. Also, the trend toward dualism noted in the 1970s is over, as the number of small farms again declined rapidly during the 1980s. The trend toward large‐scale agriculture is most prominent in the most important agricultural counties.