Show US agriculture makes fabulous record in 1948 for united states agriculture 1948 will go down in history as a fabulous year according to the 1949 britannica bookoff book of the year it was a year without a crop scare w with ith numerous record dand and near record yields achieved tho the corn crop was more than 10 per cent above the previous record and fully 60 50 per cent above the previous yeartie ye year arthe the wheat crop was the second largest on record and the fifth consecutive crop of moro more than a billion bushels one of the five largest wheat crops the coun try had ever produced the cotton crop was one fourth larger than in the previous year prices too reached a record level in january 1948 though they then broke sharply and continued to devai ae as 1948 crops were har vested the now Britan britannica nici year book records ds it in spite of the break in prices th the a VO volume lume of agricultural was such as to provide a gross income to farmers of almost 35 billion dollars slightly exceeding the 1947 record the publication co continues however because of higher costs of production the realized net income had been declining since 1947 |