TY  - BK
AU  - Hexem,R.W.
AU  - Boxley,R.F
TI  - Trends in double cropping
SN  - 0515-7137
U1  - 87-019258 
PY  - 1986///
KW  - Conservation
KW  - Cropping systems
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Management
KW  - Sequential cropping
KW  - Tillage
N1  - 42 ref. Literature review
N2  - Extract: U.S. farmers increased double-cropped acreage from 5.8 to 12.4 million acres during 1974-82, from 1.9 percent of all acres harvested in 1974 to nearly 4 percent in 1982. Double cropping was expanding because of rising commodity prices and producers' adoption of advanced technologies in plant varieties and farming practices. Appalachia, the Delta States, and the Southeast showed the sharpest growth in double cropping, partly because growing seasons there are relatively long. Double cropping declined after 1982 because of weak soybean prices, Government-sponsored idling of some wheat acreage that would otherwise have been double cropped, and unfavorable
T2  - Agricultural economic report - United States Dept. of Agriculture (USA). no. 553 Jun 1986. 14 p
ER  -