Abstract
Agricultural sectors in USAGE-TERM are represented on a commodity basis. This requires converting available input–output tables from a farm-type basis. Agriculture’s share of the national economy has declined with population growth and technological change. Farm lobbyists historically have wielded considerable influence in congress, so that for many decades, U.S. agriculture was highly distorted. In a new era of worsening global land and water scarcity, commodity prices may strengthen, boosting agriculture. A dramatic change in mining has arisen from the use of fracking techniques to extract coal seam gas.
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See http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data accessed 27 January 2017.
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The database from USAGE, a dynamic model of the national US economy, is the starting point for the USAGE-TERM database (Dixon and Rimmer 2012).
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See http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/sugar-sweeteners/policy.aspx#.UY9HGaL7CHc accessed 27 January 2017.
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This Colorado River flows in its entirety through Texas and drains into the Gulf of Mexico, unlike its better known namesake to the west which drains into the Gulf of California.
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Source: http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/texas-rice-farming/ accessed 27 January 2017.
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Source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html accessed 27 January 2017.
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Source: http://www.gfb.org/aboutus/georgia_agriculture.html accessed 2 March 2016. The site records 2014 farm gate value of $14 billion which appears to be a reasonable estimate.
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World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS?page=6 accessed 2 March 2016.
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See http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_prod_sum_dcu_snd_a.htm accessed 27 January 2017.
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See http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=4030 accessed 27 January 2017. Methane leaks remain an issue in natural gas extraction (Krauss 2016).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Kentucky_Coal_Field_region accessed 17 March 2015.
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Wittwer, G. (2017). Agriculture and Mining in Regional United States. In: Wittwer, G. (eds) Multi-regional Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling of the U.S. Economy. Advances in Applied General Equilibrium Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58866-7_2
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