From bolls to boles

John F Hart

doi:10.1353/sgo.0.0080

From bolls to boles

John F Hart

Geography, Environment and Society

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Abstract

Tree boles have replaced cotton bolls as the principal products of vast rural areas in the South. Between 1949 and 2007 the acreage of cotton, tobacco, and peanuts declined dramatically. Fewer farms grew these crops, but their per acre productivity increased so greatly that they outpaced the demand for them, and much land that once produced them has become redundant. The forest- lands that have superseded crops on redundant cropland provide a raw material base for the nation's leading wood fiber producing region.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	189-199
Number of pages	11
Journal	Southeastern Geographer
Volume	50
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.0.0080
State	Published - Jun 1 2010

Keywords

Cotton
Cropland
Forestland
Peanuts
Pulpmills
Rice
Rural land use
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Woodland

UN SDGs

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