Your Least Productive Acres Might Have an Untapped Value

Your Least Productive Acres Might Have an Untapped Value

STILLWATER, Okla. – Say you have a patch of land that’s been more of a headache than a payoff. Some years, you farm it. Some years, you don’t. The soil is thin, the yields are low and the math never quite works out. What if you just planted trees instead? That is the question driving Sydney Vieira’s master’s thesis research at Oklahoma State University. Vieira, who is graduating with her degree in agricultural economics in May, has spent the pas…