Changes in American farming

the long version

This report is a revision of the summary of a study that was begun in the fall of 1944 with the same purpose of analyzing the changes in farming during the interwar and war years, appraising the forces back of the large increases in production, and evaluating some of their peacetime implications. The background data used for this analysis are largely the statistics contained in the crop and livestock reports and other production releases of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. This study was undertaken in the belief that a first requisite for intelligent action on our peacetime production problems is an understanding of the nature and strength f the forces that have shaped the course of agricultural production in the years to come.