Analyst Says Top 10 Megatrends In Agriculture Will Continue
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100,000 today.
A sixth trend, he said is the con
tinuing adoption and use of new
technology to increase competi
tiveness, or to break into new
fields.
He said crop and livestock pro
duction will have continued gene
tic developments such as the
pesticide-resistant soybeans that
entered mainstream fanning in
recent years.
Further, satellite and Internet
services and technology, provide
opportunities for efficiencies and
information. He said that informa
tion means profit, if the right infor
mation is used.
Being able to filter through the
vast amount of information
becoming available to find useful
information is key to transforming
information into profit.
The seventh trend that Hender
son said will continue is the grow
ing public demand for environ
mental and operational controls on
agricultural operations, mainly
because of urban sprawl. That can
be translated to mean increasing
regulation, not less.
An eighth trend, he said, is that
consumer “taste” may change
what farmers produce. Of course.
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more and more different varieties
and lines of produce and animal
products are being raised and
being made available United
States consumers.
People have more choices than
they have ever had and that is
expected to continue, as demo
graphics change, cultural and food
education spreads, and technology
allows for the production of value
added crops.
(This theme has been addressed
by others, who have discussed the
creation of such new food groups,
as “nutricucticals” a term
meaning food that provides specif
ic nutritional needs, and provides
such nutrition that marketing sug
gests the foods improve health,
and perhaps may reinvigorate an
aging population seeking lost
youth.)
A ninth trend is that farm own
ers will continue to become more
and more “asset managers” rather
than agricultural producers.
More farmer-managers will
know better what their true costs of
production are and what it means
to the bottom line. They will inves*
more money off-farm to protect
themselves in the higher risk farm
ing environment, and Henderson
said he expects more farms to
diversify, also to limit risk.
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Presenters at the 17th annual Core States Agri-Education Seminar are, from the left,
in the back row, Darvin Boyd, Joseph Del Tito, and F. Barry Shaw with Core States,
Kate Coler, Charles Hosier, H. Louis Moore, Lynn Henderson, Richard Pottorff, and
Core States Keystone Market president Lawrence Delp. In the front, from the left, are
Kendra Weaver, economist David Kohl and Gerald Boyd.
The 10th trend, Henderson said,
is for continuing to farmers and
researchers to set even
higher levels for pro
duction yields.
He said that setting
goals to such things as
300-bushel per acre
com yields may well
become a reality, as the
100-bushcl goal
became.
The same with soy
beans, he said, adding
that perhaps 100-bushel
yields will be the new
realized top yields.
Also, he asked the
crowd, “Why not dairy
herds with average pro-
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ductions of 40,000-pounds of milk
per lactation?" Not so many years
ago, a 20,000-pound average was
considered high. Today a rolling
herd average in the low
30,000-pound range is not that
unusual, and production by indivi
dual animals has been continually
increasing.
Ultimately, however, Hender
son said that the entire agricultural
industry must be able to present a
coordinated front to promote itself.
It is becoming fragmented, and
numbers of people involved in the
various agricultural enterprises are
diminishing.
In order for the entire industry to
remain strong against misinforms-
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tioo and malignment, it must join
efforts to present a consolidated
face and position on controversial
issues.
The industry must also work
together to promote American
agriculture, because it does pro
duce the safest and most depend
able food supply, and is one of the
most heavily regulated.
If the public doesn't know the
truth about American agriculture,
and how it compares to other pro
duction systems around the world,
then American agriculture is open
to attack through distortions and
outright lies that can wrongfully
erode consumer confidence.
(Continued next week.)