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Record Nr.

UNINA9910696864803321

Autore

Buzby Jean C

Titolo

Possible implications for U.S. agriculture from adoption of select dietary guidelines [[electronic resource] /] / Jean C. Buzby, Hodan Farah Wells, and Gary Vocke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, , [2006]

Descrizione fisica

iv, 29 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Economic research report ; ; no. 31

Altri autori (Persone)

WellsHodan Farah

VockeGary

Soggetti

Diet - United States

Agricultural productivity - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 12, 2007).

"November 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-29).

Sommario/riassunto

To help Americans meet nutritional requirements while staying within caloric recommendations, the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourage consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole-grain products, and fat-free or low-fat milk or milk products. This report provides one view of the potential implications for U.S. agriculture if Americans changed their current consumption patterns to meet some of those guidelines. For Americans to meet the fruit, vegetable, and whole-grain recommendations, domestic crop acreage would need to increase by an estimated 7.4 million harvested acres, or 1.7 percent of total U.S. cropland in 2002. To meet the dairy guidelines, consumption of milk and milk products would have to increase by 66 percent; an increase of that magnitude would likely require an increase in the number of dairy cows as well as increased feed grains and, possibly, increased acreage devoted to dairy production.