I didn’t see that until you pointed it out. There is a loss of farmland then but I would almost attribute it in general to the suburbanization than loss of farming. You could argue that people sell their land (they may have inherited) near the cities for big money then retire/buy land from people that couldn’t make it…

Ethanol played a big part of this in the Midwest. Farmland has been in decline for a number of years. Large incentives to ethanol producers led a high demand for corn ethanol near $7/bushel. This prompted a lot of CRP ground coming back into production (2012-2013 slight change in slope). Some of those incentives have…