Agriculture Secretary: Rural America Is ‘Becoming Less and Less Relevant’ | TheBlaze.com:
"Vilsack also said rural America needs to make sure the rest of the country does not overlook their biggest assets like the food supply, recreational areas, and energy."
In the interest of increasing the 'relevance,' of rural America, I'd like to pass on these 'Farm Facts,' I found on the American Farmers Website:
- To keep up with population growth more food will have to be produced in the next 50 years than has been produced over the past 10,000 years combined.
-Today, the average U.S. farmer feeds 155 people. In 1960, a farmer fed just 26 people.
-Today's farmer grows twice as much food as his parents did - using less land, energy, water and fewer emissions.
-American farmers ship more than $100 billion of their crops and produce to many nations.
-U.S. farmers produce about 40 percent of the world's corn, using only 20 percent of the total area harvested in the world.
And yet, according to a study sited in the New York Times (2002), every minute America loses 2 acres of prime farmland to development.
