An ag economist says there are fewer U.S. acres growing crops but it is unclear what happened to those lost acres. Scott Irwin with the University of Illinois tells Brownfield there was a puzzling 14.4 million acre drop in total crop acreage after 2014.
Irwin says with that much land out of crop production, he doubts that most of it is bare, but he has been able to figure out where most of the out-of-production acres are.
