Supporting Documents for Farm and Food File, Week of April 24, 2016
Posted on April 20, 2016
Background information for “They Never Stopped Making It”
Farm and Food File column for the week beginning Sunday, April 24, 2016
Farmland values, U.S. & Missouri
Farming’s new investors: REITs and United Nations acreage data
1975 U.S. planted acreage, USDA
Reagan signs 1985 Farm Bill, Los Angeles Times
Brazil and Argentina’s grain-producing potential, USDA (2001)
Soybean production, usage, US, Brazil, Argentina, 2001 and 2016 (see pages 23, 28)
2001/02: https://future.aae.wisc.edu/outlook/wasde373.pdf
2015/16: http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/latest.pdf
New, big farmland deals, U.S. and Australia:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/62443272-0608-11e6-9b51-0fb5e65703ce.html#axzz46HVYTBU9
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