7-30 FB Too Much Ag Production
Farmers! Cattlemen. Dairymen. Any ag producer out there. You’re producing too much food and it has to stop. I’m David Sparks and I’ll explain in a minute. A federal advisory group called The National Academies' National Research Council recently produced a report saying that American farmers are producing more food than ever before but agricultural research is too consumed with food production and doesn’t pay enough attention to the consequences of producing food such as polluting the air and water. "If farmers are going to meet future demands, the U.S. agriculture system has to evolve to become sustainable and think broadly - past the bottom line of producing the most possible," said Julia Kornegay, who chairs the Washington-based council's committee that wrote the report and heads the department of horticultural science at North Carolina State University.
When farmers, who’s job definition it is to produce food for a hungry nation and starving world are told their producing too much food…it’s bound to get contentious isn’t it?
