I’m giving the opening keynote address at this meeting at 4:15 p.m. It’s also online. For information, registration, and online access, click here.
My talk: “The Elements: Food, Nutrition, Health & Politics, 2025 Style.”
A post on X (the site formerly known as Twitter) displayed this graph.
It comes from a policy report published on FarmDocDaily: Concentration of US Principal Crop Acres in Corn and Soybeans.
The bottom line: 30% of harvested acres is devoted to corn, and another 30% to soybeans.
These, of course, are largely genetically modified.
This is industrial agriculture at a glance.
And here’s one more, worth seeing again in this context.
Regenerative agriculture anyone?