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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 639851" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>What's happening and why it is happening depend on where in the country you are located and what the other possibilities for the land are in that area.</p><p></p><p>Obviously if you are near a major city, sprawl, houses, warehouse, etc will bring in more money than cattle or dairy.</p><p></p><p>However if you are not in a sprawl/development area but can grow corn then corn is much more profitable than cattle with current cattle prices.</p><p></p><p>On rangeland that is too dry for corn, too far from population centers for development, etc cattle will continue to be raised there.</p><p></p><p>Overall land will be used for the purpose which makes the most money. Economics rules. Until the economics of cattle change, land with other possibilities in more profitable uses will be converted to those uses, sooner or later, unless economics (or legislation) changes that.</p><p></p><p>However legislation can't really overrule economics, legislation just slows the economic change down. No sense worrying about it, that is what will happen sooner or later, in a free society. </p><p></p><p>Even in Europe in places like France where there are complex rules to try to stop the conversion of farmland to other uses or to making larger farms, it doesn't really work it just slows the economic process. </p><p></p><p>The only way to change the conversion is to change the economics.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 639851, member: 7509"] What's happening and why it is happening depend on where in the country you are located and what the other possibilities for the land are in that area. Obviously if you are near a major city, sprawl, houses, warehouse, etc will bring in more money than cattle or dairy. However if you are not in a sprawl/development area but can grow corn then corn is much more profitable than cattle with current cattle prices. On rangeland that is too dry for corn, too far from population centers for development, etc cattle will continue to be raised there. Overall land will be used for the purpose which makes the most money. Economics rules. Until the economics of cattle change, land with other possibilities in more profitable uses will be converted to those uses, sooner or later, unless economics (or legislation) changes that. However legislation can't really overrule economics, legislation just slows the economic change down. No sense worrying about it, that is what will happen sooner or later, in a free society. Even in Europe in places like France where there are complex rules to try to stop the conversion of farmland to other uses or to making larger farms, it doesn't really work it just slows the economic process. The only way to change the conversion is to change the economics. Jim [/QUOTE]
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