Growing a crop may be more difficult to start than a babysitting or lawn mowing service, but growers face the same

fierce competition. In the grand scale of world agriculture, farmers face competition from thousands of others

because they sell an identical product. After all, winter wheat is winter wheat, but if they find it hard to make money

with that crop, it is relatively easy for farmers to leave the marketplace for another crop. In this case, they do not sell

the family farm, they switch crops.

Take the case of the upper Midwest region of the United States—for many generations the area was called “King

Wheat.” According to the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service, statistics

by state, in 1997, 11.6 million acres of wheat and 780,000 acres of corn were planted in North Dakota. In the

intervening 25 or so years has the mix of crops changed? Since it is relatively easy to switch crops, did farmers
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