The purpose of this paper is to describe the long-term trends in German agricultural development for the period since 1850 and to test the "induced innovation" hypothesis against German experience.

In this paper, views of large scale farm organization are traced from the 19th century to date. Then, the structures of East and West German industry and agriculture are described. Next the productivity of East and West German agricultural land and labor are compared for the period 1958-1969....