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Thread. Melancholy images here, for me. That’s 150+ bushel/acre corn land — soil that basically will grow anything — being taken for housing, about 500 feet from where I live east of Madison, WI. 1/ 
You can’t call this a tragedy — people have to live somewhere, and the Madison area is the fastest growing part of the state. Moreover the housing here won’t be the super low-density kind the experts at groups like @Farmland are — with good cause — just death on.
Yet it’s hard to escape the feeling that we’ll need highly productive soils sometime in the future more urgently than we do now. Once those soils are lost to housing or commercial development, we won’t be able to get them back.
Also, personally, I like living close to farmland. No offense to suburbia, where I’ve spent much of my life, or to any of the cities in which I’ve lived. There’s just something miraculous, to me, in what farmland can do. That’s all. [end]
