Crop-abandonment-map (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Crop-abandonment-map

Caption

A map showing the percentage of abandoned farmland within a 36-square-kilometer area. Most of the more than 30 million acres of cultivated land abandoned between 1986 and 2018 is concentrated in the Great Plains and the Mississippi River valley.

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UW–Madison

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