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Under the agricultural policies of Country R, farmers can sell any grain not sold on the open market to a grain board at guaranteed prices. It seems inevitable that, in order to curb the resultant escalating overproduction, the grain board will in just a few years have to impose quotas on grain production, limiting farmers to a certain flat percentage of the grain acreage they cultivated previously.
Suppose an individual farmer in Country R wishes to minimize the impact on profits of the grain quota whose eventual imposition is being predicted. If the farmer could do any of the following and wants to select the most effective course of action, which should the farmer do now?
Select in advance currently less profitable grain fields and retire them if the quota takes effect.
Seek long-term contracts to sell grain at a fixed price.
Replace obsolete tractors with more efficient new ones.
Put marginal land under cultivation and grow grain on it.
Agree with other farmers on voluntary cutbacks in grain production.
对粮食生产限制额度，将农民生产粮食的种植面积加以限制
“耕种面积”对应D选项中：开垦边际土地，用以粮食种植
意思是，通过扩大粮食种植面积，来应对政策提出的限制种植面积【？】
farme希望minimize最小化 （政策） 对 profits of the grain quota 的影响（前文：影响指 限制↓耕种的粮食面积 limiting farmers to a certain flat percentage of the grain acreage they cultivated previously.）
选项D：
Put marginal land under cultivation and grow grain on it.
耕种边际土地，并在其上种植粮食。（增加↑耕种的粮食面积）
而题干说的是expected一定会实施，所以现在还没实施的时候就是一定要使劲种就行
they cultivated previously！！！！
政府说为了不让农民死命种，说出个Quota 来让农民在自己土地上种植grain 的比例定死， 就是，政策出来前你种的grain 占农地的多少percentage, ，你之后也得是这个percentage, 所以那不就是赶紧多种吗......加大percentage
说明设定的quota与曾经的grain acreage是呈正相关的，所以应该put marginal land
The quota will be calculated based on pre-existing grain acreage (presumably averaged over a few years). Therefore, it would make the most sense for the farmer to boost grain acreage for the next few years, even if some of the acreage increase involves using land not optimal for grain production.