Thank you for a good description. But didn't it force regulation. Had to adopt quotas, to try to make up shortfalls, later, rotation or what to grow? Or was that later, after ww2? Didn't a lot more land get seized as a result. It turned entire places into ghost towns.

It's not the first time the government has sold off some of the same region either. Wasn't there something recent in the Mid West? Offering cheaper land rights.