Net movement of people into the nonmetropolitan areas of the United States has developed in recent years, reversing a long term trend of out-movement. This new trend is not limited to counties adjacent to metropoli tan areas. The association between 11 demographic, economic, and regional...

This paper reviews current information on the supply of and demand for agricultural land in the United States. It describes the size and composition of the agricultural land base, discusses shortcomings of data by which use of this base is measured, and evaluates various estimates of future...