Cropland use complicated issue

The total amount of cropland decreased by 14 million acres from 2017 to 2022 in the United States, according to the 2022 Census of Agriculture released in February by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That follows a trend of cropland reduction of more than 50 years.Between 2017 and 2022 the number of farms in Wisconsin with harvested cropland decreased from 49,304 to 44,207. During the same period the number of harvested cropland acres decreased from 9.2 million to 8.7 million.A study was rele