Find out why U.S. Ag Secretary talks of the crisis in farming.
In a seminar talk at Cornell
Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack explained the current state of farming in the country and the U.S.
Through a whiteboard and flowcharts
Vilsack explained the main challenge farmers in the United States face today - the inability to sustain themselves.
He noted that between 2017 and 2023, 39,700 farms had to close.
He later added that the top 7 percent of farms earned 90 percent of all farming income last year,
He challenges the land grant universities to figure out what can be done.
But the source of the problem in within his own USDA policies.
T H. Harbinger's book, The Farm Program, reveals how land grant universities are dominated by Big Ag corporations.
Unless an immediate change in farm policy is launched, US farming is headed to repeat the crisis of the 1980's.
How can the US prepare farming for the future?
" the farmer, consumer, and taxpayer cannot hope to have a meaningful conversation about food and farming if it is disconnected from history."
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