As a government employee for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, I often find myself having to justify my job. Since the mid‐1940′s and the start of the green revolution, many believe that there has been no need for agricultural research or education. Advances in breeding, mechanization, fertilization, and pest control have brought food surpluses and kept prices low in the grocery stores for the last sixty years.

Lately, however, additional costs associated with the way we farm have come to

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