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| This area was 1/3 wheat, 1/3 sorghum and 1/3 fallow up until the late 90's. At that point everyone jumped on the no-till bandwagon realizing large water use efficiency increases. Because of that we went from 2/3 of the ground being in production to (as a wild guess) 80% being in production. The larger farmers in general have close to 100% in production while some of the farmers who have not switched to no-till still do the old rotation.
That 80% will likely increase as the years go on in our area, not decrease. It has nothing to do with price and everything to do with water use efficiency. The transition started well before the runup in prices, it's just not yet a completed transition. | |
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Trying to Understand the thinking behind this
