The Production Scenario (IMAGE)

University of Michigan

The Production Scenario

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Under federal policy, farmers are incentivized to plant crops like corn on as much land as possible, as has been simulated in this digital representation of a rolling, erodible landscape in the Corn Belt. That was true 30 years ago and is still true today. 

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Image courtesy of Joan Iverson Nassauer

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