By Steven Wallander, Roger Claassen, and Cynthia Nickerson Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-79) 22 pp, August 2011 The recent 9-billion-gallon increase in corn-based ethanol production, which resulted from a combination of rising gasoline prices and a suite of Federal bioenergy policies, provides evidence of how farmers altered their land-use decisions in response to increased demand for corn. As some forecasts had suggested, corn acreage increased mostly on farms that previously specialized in soybeans. Other farms, however, offset this shift by expanding soybean production. Farm-level data reveal that the simultaneous net expansion of corn and soybean acreage resulted from a reduction in cotton acreage, a shift from uncultivated hay to cropland, and the expansion of double cropping (consecutively producing two crops of either like or unlike commodities on the same land within the same year). Keywords: Corn, soybeans, ethanol, yields, Agricultural Resource Management Survey, ARMS, acreage, bioenergy, ethanol, indirect effects, land use, corn production, environmental impacts, ERS, USDA In this report ... Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Charts and graphs (in .png format) from this report are available in the .zip file listed below. The .zip file also contains a document (readme.txt) that lists the name and title of each chart or graph file. Updated date: August 18, 2011 |
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