@article{Raup:14385,
      recid = {14385},
      author = {Raup, Philip M.},
      title = {SOME MAJOR TRENDS AFFECTING THE STRUCTURE OF AGRICULTURE  IN MINNESOTA AND THE UNITED STATES; Proceedings of the  Fifth Joint Conference on Agriculture, Food, and the  Environment, June 17-18, 1996, Padova, Italy},
      address = {1996},
      number = {1687-2016-137228},
      series = {Working Paper WP96-04, Session VIII, Paper 1},
      pages = {18},
      year = {1996},
      abstract = {Two of the major trends shaping the evolution of  agriculture in the United States are reduced  diversification and increased risk in grain-crop  production.  This paper will attempt to document these  trends since 1950, with data for one state, Minnesota.   Since the state produces no cotton, rice, tobacco, or  subtropical fruit and vegetable crops, there can be no  pretension that it represents the full range of land use in  U.S. agriculture.  Minnesota has been a significant  producer of all of the principle grain crops, livestock  products, sugar beets, and oil seeds, and it bridges the  boundary between the dairy belt and the grain belt in the  Mid-West.  With these limitations, Minnesota data provide  revealing evidence of changes over the half-century since  World War II that are redefining the structure of American  agriculture.  The primary data sources are the time series  of annual data maintained by the Minnesota Agricultural  Statistics Service, supplemented by data from annual  studies of the Minnesota rural Real Estate market,  conducted by the University of Minnesota.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/14385},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.14385},
}