The answer for agriculture: Freedom to grow

摘要

The tight global food situation today raises two questions for U.S. agriculture. One question is: Can American farmers realize the opportunities this growing need for food offers? The answer is clearly yes. The other question is: Can farmers meet thatchallenge playing by the old rules? The answer here is just as clearly no. The rules are already changing worldwide. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, more changed than the disappearance of a concrete barrier dividing families and a nation. People also began to tear down the walls that had enclosed their economic and political lives.