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Increases in yield per acre would be feasible in
all major groups of States. Compared with the
1937-41 average, the opportunities appear to be
greatest (about 65 percent) in the Mississippi Delta
States. Regional increases in yield per acre of from
30 to 40 percent were estimated for the Lake States,
the five Corn Belt States, the Appalachian States,
and the Southeastern States.
Pasture.-In meeting wartime needs for larger
acreages of higher yielding crops, a considerable
acreage of land normally used for pasture was
shifted to other more intensive uses. This occurred
especially in the Corn Belt, the Lake States, and the
Northern Plains.
From the standpoint of a long-time cropping program
that will maintain or improve the soil and
produce feed economically, pasture should occupy a
more important place in those areas than it did
during the war. State Committees in both the Corn
Belt and the northern Plains States suggest that the
acreages of rotation pasture be increased 25 percent
above the 1943 acreage. The suggested increase
in the Lake States is 16 percent.
In the Appalachian and Southern States larger
than usual acreages of better quality pastures are
needed as the basis for a conversion to more diversified
farming, including more livestock production.
The increases in acreage of approximately 25 percent
in these groups of States would be mostly in
permanent pasture, even though the percentage increase
in rotation and permanent pasture would be
about the same.
A suggested increase in rotation pasture of 37
percent in the Pacific States and 17 percent in the
Mountain States largely represents desirable increases
in irrigated pasture.The opportunities for improvement of the carrying
capacity per acre by the use of better pasture-management
practices are greater for open permanent
pasture than for rotation pastures, measured in
terms of animal-unit months of grazing. In the
States east of the Great Plains, the estimated benchmark
carrying capacity for an average acre of open
permanent pasture is 31 percent above 1943; whereas
for rotation pasture it is 16 percent above 1943. All
of the over-all gains in carrying capacity of rotation
pastures would be confined to the central Corn Belt,
the Lake States, and the Mississippi Delta States.
In all other groups of eastern States, any improvement
in carrying capacity of that type of pasture
would be slightly more than offset by the addition of
more acres of lower potential carrying capacity. In
both the Corn Belt and the Lake States, State Committees
estimate that by the use of profitable improved
practices farmers can increase the carrying
capacity of the average acre of rotation pasture to
25 percent above its capacity with the pasture-management
practices in use in 1943 and normal growing
weather.
In the same two groups of States-Central Corn
Belt and Lake States-comparable increases in the
carrying capacity of an average acre of open permanent
pasture are 37 percent and 65 percent, respectively,
above 1943. A comparable figure for the
Appalachian States is 23 percent; for the Mississippi
Delta States, 18 percent; and for the Northeastern
States, 15 percent.
A valid comparison between 1943 and a postwar
bench mark in the carrying capacity per acre of
pastures and ranges in the Great Plains States and
States farther west cannot be made from the available
data.45
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United States. Department of Agriculture. Interbureau Committee on Postwar Programs. Peacetime adjustments in farming : possibilities under prosperity conditions., book, December 1945; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6228/m1/48/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.