My daddy was a farmer and yes I live on a farm. Now it is not about yield it is about rerun on investment. If you take out the welfare payments for growing corn, the farmer needs to grow what he can put in the ground the cheapest that will give him the most return. Corn is produce by mostly commercial farmers that lease as much land as possible for the million dollars of equipment it takes to produce thousands of acres of corn. So where is your farm?
Eastern Nebraska, north of Omaha a ways.
Though I think Dad is getting out of it this year, and I am not in a situation where I could go back. Not enough land or money to make a go of it.