Wisconsin’s cropland is shrinking faster than any other state in its region, a loss that could affect the state’s economy. Wisconsin lost almost 5 percent of its cropland from 2000 to 2005. That’s equivalent to 30,000 acres of cropland a year.

Seven other states, none of them in the Midwest, lost a larger percentage of their cropland during the five-year span. Those states were: California, Georgia, Vermont, Nevada, Massachusetts, Hawaii and Delaware.

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