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DuC%!'9NT RESUME
02754 - [A2093204] (Restricted)
(The rise of Prime Agricultural Lar for Nonagricultural Purposes
in the United states]. Jujy 19, 1977. 4 pp. + enclosure (3 pp.).
Report to R, H. Davis, Administrator* Soil Conservation Service;
by Brian P. Crowley, Assistant Director, Community and EcoLomic
Development Div.
Issue Area? Land Use Planning and Cottrol (2300).
Contact: Community and Economic Development Div.
Budget Function: Agriculture (350).
Organization Concerned: Department of Agriculture.
A study cc nducted by the Soil Conservation ervice in
1975 identified cartain land in Minnesota as noncropland which
had high or medium potential for conversion to Lropland within
the next 10 to 15 years. Findings/Conclusions: This land was
included as part of an 111-million-acre cropland reserve which
the Service estimated existed nationside. About 78 million acres
of the reserve were classified as having high potential for
conversion to cropland, conidering commodity prices,
development costs, and production costs. The remaining 33
million acres were classified as haviag medium potential for
conversion to cropland. In estimating the acreage of potential
croplaid, Service field represeutatives gathered .nd analyzed
information from sample areas in 506 counties throughout the
country. Various points within these sample areas were assessed
as to their potential for conversion to cropland. Visits to the
44 sample points in S counties in Hinvesota, which d been
classifioi as having high or medium potential for conversion,
showed thAet two of the points had been converted to cropland,
but there was little likelihood that the other 42 points
represented land that could or would be converted to cropland if
needed in the foreseeable future. Recommendations: In future
studies of this type, landowners of the sample points should be
consulted about their intentions for using noncropland for
future crop production, and their views on the problems that
would be encountered in converting such land to cropland should
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