Less idle land, more land for growing crops

Since 2007, enrollment in the long-term Conservation Reserve is down by 9.9 million acres; in fact, the 26.8 million acres in the reserve in 2013 was the smallest amount since 1988, writes economist David Widmar at the blog Agricultural Economic Insights. Widmar says “the release of nearly 10 million acres of farmland into production will likely… » Read More

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