According to the 31 March USDA Prospective Plantings report, U.S. farmers will use the least amount of land for producing wheat since record keeping began a century ago. In reality, the area planted to wheat has been in decline for many years, while yield improvements have paled in comparison to corn and soybeans. The critique was that wheat needed to adopt genetic modification or else continue to cede area to the more profitable corn and soybean rotations. Globally, the area planted to wheat has also been declining concurrently with improvements in yield. Much of the wheat land in the western part of the U.S. is too dry for corn and soybeans, leaving these landowners with very little other choice but to plant wheat, with sorghum a possibi...

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