November 23, 2015
By Victoria G. Myers
Progressive Farmer Senior Editor
Landowners may be paying a price for pursuing the golden temptress of commodities. Where the allure of $8-a-bushel corn led to tilled-up pastures and torn-down fences, remorse seems to be setting in.
"In our part of the country, a lot of properties that were converted from pasture to row crop are beginning to have serious issues with erosion," said Kurt Hollenberg, a broker with United Country Real Estate and Auction Services, based in Columbia, Missouri.
He said some of these converted operations would like to go back to fences and grass, but many landowners are not in a position to make the shift.
"Now that row-cropping is not making them as much money, they'd like to go back to cattle;...
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