Is the Share of Agricultural Maintenance Research Rising? Implications for Future Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture

Agricultural research is susceptible to research deterioration due to biological, climatic, and economic forces. Research deteriorates as the base conditions it addresses change which leaves the resulting information or technology less effective, efficient, productive, and/or relevant. Maintenance...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sparger, John Adam
Other Authors: Agricultural and Applied Economics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31483
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03162009-182424/