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Multi-Cropping Practices: Recent Trends in Double-Cropping

Allison Borchers, Elizabeth Truex-Powell, Steven Wallander, Cynthia J. Nickerson, Borchers, Allison, Truex-Powell, Elizabeth, Wallander, Steven, Nickerson, Cynthia

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Over the last decade, growing demand for agricultural commodities-for both food and fuel-has increased the incentives for farm operators to increase production. Double-cropping has drawn interest as a method to intensify production without expanding acreage. This report develops a baseline analysis of U.S. double-cropping patterns from 1999 to 2012 and briefly explores factors that may influence farmers' double-cropping decisions.

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Over the last decade, growing demand for agricultural commodities-for both food and fuel-has increased the incentives for farm operators to increase production. Double-cropping has drawn interest as a method to intensify production without expanding acreage. This report develops a baseline analysis of U.S. double-cropping patterns from 1999 to 2012 and briefly explores factors that may influence farmers' double-cropping decisions.

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Over the last decade, growing demand for agricultural commodities-for both food and fuel-has increased the incentives for farm operators to increase production. Double-cropping has drawn interest as a method to intensify production without expanding acreage. This report develops a baseline analysis of U.S. double-cropping patterns from 1999 to 2012 and briefly explores factors that may influence farmers' double-cropping decisions.

Key concepts: Cropping, Multiple cropping, Production (economics), Incentive, Agricultural economics, Baseline (sea), Agriculture, Agricultural science

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