A world of potential

摘要

Ag policy guru Robert Thompson is still passionate about farm profits and feeding the world. Understand one thing about Robert Thompson. Sure, he's an agricultural economist with a long list of impressive jobs to his credit. Mentally, though, he neverstrayed far from the family farm he grew up on in St. Lawrence County, N.Y. His focus, after 40-plus years of charts, graphs and policymaking, comes down to one farmer making enough profit to service debt and put another year's crops in the ground.