Not sure how they could do it. Take all the land out of CRP and switch others to corn and you might squeeze out 25% more. That wouldn't cover the need with all the ethanol plants that are coming on line.
Watch, see, and learn. They'll do it. They're American Farmers. We have the US Marines, and we also have the US Farmer. Both do amazing things that everyone thinks are impossible to do. Even a cursory look at history bears that out.
In 1986 the corn crop was just under 7 billion bushels. last year it was about 12 billion bushels.
That huge increase in production occured with corn in the $1.25 to $2.50 range, almost the 'disincentive to produce' price. Corn is $3.50 now, and everyone is gearing up to blow the doors off of the production levels on their farms. They're seeing this as their one shot at a repeat of what happened nearly 33 years ago in 1973, a windfall profit year.
This year is going to see a historic bin bursting crop.
Wait until the truly big breakthoughs occur, we'll see 30, 40, 100 billion bushel crops.
Did you know that corn only uses 4% of the sunlight that it receives? The implications of beeding a plant that can increase that percentage are very significant. There are hundres, even thousands, of other ways to affect total yield.