Sadly you'll never get those farmers to agree to anything. You might talk the one crazy pants one in the entire country, who already owns his own land, equipment and everything else into cutting production for a year. However most of the farmers are either paying cash rent, share cropping, or are borrowing every dime they can just to survive. They will plant double to make up the difference. I know, both my grandfathers were high up in AAM and NFO respectively and it's same conclusion they came to back in the 70s and farmers weren't borrowing money to eat back then.
Sure we import/export a ton but the lions share stays within 100 miles of where it's grown. Most of the #2 yellow corn I see grown gets sold within 100 miles to a feed yard or to an alcohol plant. Most of the wheat gets sent to a Cargil facility for milling. Most of the pinto beans get sold to taco bell through a facility that makes refried beans for Taco Bell. Soy goes again to feeders. Traders just use the import/export reports as an excuse to drive the markets down and to get around our impossible standards for food grade grains.
Sadly you'll never get those farmers to agree to anything. You might talk the one crazy pants one in the entire country, who already owns his own land, equipment and everything else into cutting production for a year. However most of the farmers are either paying cash rent, share cropping, or are borrowing every dime they can just to survive. They will plant double to make up the difference. I know, both my grandfathers were high up in AAM and NFO respectively and it's same conclusion they came to back in the 70s and farmers weren't borrowing money to eat back then.
Sure we import/export a ton but the lions share stays within 100 miles of where it's grown. Most of the #2 yellow corn I see grown gets sold within 100 miles to a feed yard or to an alcohol plant. Most of the wheat gets sent to a Cargil facility for milling. Most of the pinto beans get sold to taco bell through a facility that makes refried beans for Taco Bell. Soy goes again to feeders. Traders just use the import/export reports as an excuse to drive the markets down and to get around our impossible standards for food grade grains.