JUST LEARNING - 9/3/2017 21:02
I don't know total bushels but there have been a lot of dry land acres in kansas that have been brought into production in the last 10 years that would be very questionable without crop insurance. KS I think is #7 in total production and a majority of the acres are dry. The far eastern counties wouldn't change many acres but yield goals would change. I could see acres going back to grass in western ND, western SD, western NE dry land and Oklahoma and Texas dry land. It would just be too risky to grow corn in those states because raising under 30 bu corn is a real possibility.
Good native grass will rent for just as much or more than a thin soil high risk crop field. Currently good pasture sells for just as much or more than thin row crop. Take away the crop insurance floor and it would get worse.
In my opinion crop insurance has brought a lot of acres into production that would never of came out of grass without it.