Similar to the response to the ethanol boom ten years ago. The price of soy beans and corn skyrocketed and farmers quickly adapted. They upped their investments in transportation to be better positioned to move larger shipments in semi's rather than grain carts and they changed their field utilization strategies by clearing and cultivating land that had previously been deemed unusable and reducing their fallow fields by dumping more fertilizer on the fields to keep them productive longer between breaks.

The results...buffer lands around waterways have been reduced, more fertilizer run-off, and more and heavier vehicles damaging back-roads and rural bridges that were not built to handle it. People will always respond to the economic incentives that are in their best interest.