McLean County Farm Bureau

FarmDoc Daily

• Concentration of US Crops in Corn and Soybeans: Importance to Increasing US Production of Grains and Oilseeds
  In today's farmdoc daily article, we examine an apparent cap on US grain and oilseed acres, which have been range bound between 225 and 250 million acres since 1985. Some likely causes are restrictions that date to the 1985 farm bill on the conversion of highly erodible land into new cropland and conversion of wetlands, […]
• A View of the Farm Bill Through Policy Design, Part 6: Conservation Reserve Program
  In today's farmdoc daily article, we examine the Conservation Reserve Program — the largest conservation program in Title II of the Farm Bill — which was first authorized in the landmark Food Security Act of 1985. The modern CRP has built upon traditional conservation policies, evolving and expanding to include partial field enrollments that compliment […]
• Extreme Weather and the Food System
  In today's farmdoc daily article, we explore how the impacts of recent extreme weather events have been felt among US households. Using results from the August 2023 wave of the Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey, we see that US consumers have been impacted in several ways, from changing plans (e.g., vacation) to experiencing property […]