@article{Lu:333631,
      recid = {333631},
      author = {Lu, Yao-Chi},
      title = {Technological Innovation and Productivity Growth in U.S.  Agriculture},
      address = {1980-01},
      number = {1962-2023-468},
      series = {Joint Planning and Evaluation Staff Paper Series No.  80-BI-01},
      pages = {56},
      year = {1980},
      note = {This paper was prepared for presentation at the Workshop  on Innovation Policy and Firm Strategy sponsored by the  International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis on  December 4-6, 1979, in Laxenburg, Austria.  It was based on  the results and methodology presented in the  report--Prospects for Productivity Growth in U.S.  Agriculture by Yao-Chi Lu, Philip Cline, and Leroy Quance,  USDA, ESCS, Agricultural Report No. 435, September 1979.   In this paper, projections of agricultural productivity  were updated and extended from the year 2000 to year 2025  and two scenarios were added to evaluate the effects of  reduced funding for research and extension on agricultural  productivity growth.  },
      abstract = {The growth rate for year for U.S. agricultural  productivity through the year 2025 may decline if the past  trend of support for research and extension extends into  the future. However, with increased support for research  and extension, three major emerging  technologies--photosynthesis enhancement, bioregulators,  and twinning beef cattle--may be developed and adopted by  farmers before the turn of the century.  Adoption of these  emerging technologies will shift productivity growth to a  higher growth curve.  It was projected under these  circumstances that the growth rate through the year 2025  may equal the historical rate.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/333631},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.333631},
}