@article{Otte:307499,
      recid = {307499},
      author = {Otte, Robert C.},
      title = {Farming in the City's Shadow:   Urbanization of Land and  Changes in Farm Output in Standard Metropolitan Statistical  Areas, 1960-70},
      address = {1974-02},
      number = {1473-2020-1229},
      series = {Agricultural Economic Report No. 250},
      pages = {17},
      year = {1974},
      abstract = {Urbanization is advancing rapidly in many areas of the  United  States, yet urban areas occupy only about 10  percent of the  Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas,  where there is the  greatest concentration of population.   Moreover, the current  rate of urbanization has had little  apparent impact on total  U.S. agricultural production.   Seventy percent of the U.S.  population lives within the  Standard Metropolitan Statistical  Areas (SMSA's)—counties  or groups of counties with urban concentrations of 50,000  or more people.  Over 80 percent of the population increase  between 1960 and 1970 occurred in SMSA's.  About 7 million  acres, an average of nearly one-third of an acre per capita  population increase, shifted to urban uses  within SMSA's  during that time.  Only 10 percent of the total area of  SMSA's was in urban uses in 1970.  Twenty-four percent  was  cropland, 19 percent pasture and range, 32 percent  woodland, and 15 percent miscellaneous.  SMSA's comprise 13  percent of the land area of the 48 contiguous states; but  17 percent of the farms, 14 percent of cropland harvested,  and 21 percent of the value of farm products sold were  reported from these areas in 1969.  Overall, the proportion  of the total value of farm products sold in SMSA's  decreased slightly between 1959 and 1969.  Of the eight  highest valued crops, the proportion produced within SMSA's  increased for four crops and decreased for the others  during this period.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/307499},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.307499},
}