Analyst: ‘Sure looks like’ ag census undercounted corn and soybean acreage

The latest Census of Agriculture, released in February, reported a 2.2 percent decline in U.S. farmland from 2017 to 2022. A portion of that reduction, involving corn and soybean cropland, may be overstated, said Aaron Smith, a professor of agricultural economics at UC-Davis, in a blog. Smith looked at states that reported large declines in… » Read More

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