HOWARD G. BUFFETT, AG ADVOCATEFARMERS NEED TO LEAD SUSTAINABLE CHANGES IN FARMING AND FOOD

摘要

Howard G. Buffett found his way into farming through an unlikely route. As a 5-year-old boy, he loved playing in the dirt, and he planted his first stand of corn in his backyard in Omaha, Nebraska. Farming wasn't the natural trajectory for the oldestson of billionaire Warren Buffett. Today, the 58-year-old Buffett works 1,500 acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat in Illinois, and he oversees research farms in the U.S. and Africa.