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Productivity growth still the major driver in growing U.S. agricultural output

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By Sun Ling Wang,

Eldon Ball,

Richard Nehring

& Roberto Mosheim

Special to Poultry Times

WASHINGTON — The Economic Research Service (ERS) has updated its U.S. agricultural productivity accounts through 2013. The revised and extended data show that while annual productivity growth dropped from 1.46 percent in 1990-2000 to 0.6 percent in 2000-07, it rebounded in recent years, rising to 1.45 percent in 2007-13. Strong productivity growth offset declining use of agricultural inputs (e.g., land and labor) during the latter period and enabled. . .

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