Excellent post and I think you explained everything very good. If the commodity prices get low enough to get the land cost's down considerable in the main corn belt than it could start to make the marginal areas start having to cut back.  If the cornbelt gets their land cost low enough they could become a lower cost producer, but right now I think it might actually be tougher in the higher priced areas to make a profit. I seem to be farming in a higher priced area were the rent prices are driving our costs higher than our break evens. It is just like Tara said, we have a cost problem, not a production problem.