Farm Types in Nebraska 
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THE PRINCIPAL USES OF FARM LAND 
Nearly all of the land in a farm can be classed as either 
cultivated land, wild hay land, or pasture and waste. In this 
study the cultivated land together with the wild hay land will 
be spoken of as the crop area. The difference between the 
total farm area and the crop area is assumed to be the area 
occupied by the farmstead, pasture, roads, and waste. Since 
the land occupied by lots, roads, and waste is often used more 
as pasture than as crop land it will not be far wrong to treat 
all of the farm area aside from crop land as simply pasture. 
THE ACREAGE AND YIELD OF CROPS 
The acreage of the various crops grown on a given type 
of farm varies less from year to year than either the yield per 
acre or the total yield per farm. While yields per acre in ary 
given area vary greatly from season to season, there is a tend- 
ency for the yields in all areas to vary in harmony with one 
