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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: With U.S. Farmland Maxed Out, Growers Tap Into Reserves


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Three combines harvest a wheat field near Salina, Kansas, in 2005.

Since then, farmers have been pressing more and more land into service, including much locked away through a federal conservation program, to take advantage of a surge in food prices, but most of the arable land in the U.S. is now tapped out, economists say.

Read more of our special series on the global food crisis.

AP Photo/Salina Journal, Jeff Cooper