@article{Gustafson:307966,
      recid = {307966},
      author = {Gustafson, Greg C. and Bills, Nelson L.},
      title = {U.S. Cropland, Urbanization, and Landownership Patterns    },
      address = {1984-11},
      number = {1473-2020-1479},
      series = {Agricultural Economic Report No. 520},
      pages = {22},
      year = {1984},
      abstract = {Most U.S. farmland is in no danger of being overrun by  urban sprawl.  Less than 20 percent of U.S. cropland is in  metropolitan counties.  Cropland in the Northeast is under  more urban pressure than elsewhere because more than  three-fourths of it is within or adjacent to urban  counties.  Ownership patterns of cropland are also  different in metropolitan counties, with a higher  proportion held in small parcels, by nonfarmers, and by  nonfamily corporations than in rural areas.  Such  differences in ownership patterns may presage conversion of  cropland to other uses.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/307966},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.307966},
}