Confluence of Factors Shows Areas of Greatest Adverse Impact.”

A map of the United States that shows the areas of the country that would suffer the greatest loss of farmland values as a result of reductions in subsidies, with all four factors considered. The Northern and Central Plains and the Mississippi Valley would incur the greatest adverse impact.

Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture/Economic Research Service, U.S. Census Bureau, and authors' geospatial calculations.