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Storage Utilization in a Deficit Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Wayne A. Boutwell  and
David E. Kenyon
Wayne A. Boutwell
Affiliation:
Marketing Development Division, Economic Research Service, USDA
David E. Kenyon
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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During the past two decades corn production has increased in the South Atlantic region defined as Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia but not as rapidly as total U. S. production. The region accounted for 6.7 percent of the U. S. corn production in 1950 compared with 3.7 percent in 1970. During the same period soybean production has increased in the South Atlantic relative to other areas, accounting for 5.3 percent of U. S. production in 1970, up from 2.9 percent in 1950.

The major consumer of both corn and soybeans is the livestock industry. During the past twenty years this industry has expanded in the South Atlantic. In terms of grain consuming animal units (GCAU), the region accounted for 7.4 percent of U. S. production in 1953 compared with 9.1 percent in 1970. As a result the area is a deficit producer of both corn and soybeans, although with the relative increase of soybean production, the soybean deficit is expected to decrease.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , July 1973 , pp. 233 - 237
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1973

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