[DManA]

How much land is available east of the Mississippi?

It is a myth that we are running out of farm land anywhere in this country.

[FreePaul]

We only run out of farm land if we run out of people willing to farm the land. If land is available and farming is an economical use it will happen. The authors of this article seem to lean toward having big brother dictate the best use of land. Post number 10 pretty much sums up the situation in a lot of areas. Any really large acreage is held by the farming corporations.

I know of people, west of the Mississippi, farming five hundred to fifteen hundred acres with the largest contiguous parcel less than one hundred acres. They lease most of the land and may not have it long if developers decide it's good for a subdivision. Not the best way to do it but it's a living.