President obama and our great leader, tom vilsack has an opportunity to share with us visions for were going in the second term. It seems like a sequester come to sequester come to sequester and that certainly does weigh heavily on our shoulders, but nevertheless come were applied rumor going to do some incredibly great things in the second turned and im sure hes very excited to share that with you. I also want to recognize that we have a lot of young people in the audience from the Outlook Forum Student Diversity program, now in its seventh year. 20 undergraduates and for the first time, 10 graduate students are here to gain insights into food monoculture. So be sure to seek them out during the breaks. Congratulate them for being here, mentor them over the course of a couple of days. That would be great. I know how these people are because i have an alumnus of this program who works in my office and these are the people who are going to beat american agriculture in the future. Many th
All of them can break down barriers to Food Security. It can allow us to allow new paths of progress. Plow entirely new pass to progress. We need those new pathways forward. Take a look at a few recent headlines. Drought and mississippi impacts everything from livestock to deer. Food shortages could force the world into vegetarians. Patent endings raises new biotech issues. Global Crop Production shows signs of stagnant. Could Climate Change be al qaedas best friend in africa . I could go on. When i think of the factors that make up the perfect storm, im reminded of what mark twain reportedly observed. By land, theyre not making it anymore. I wish twain was right. The truth is, Global Warming is making less. We need to do more land that we still have. Every year 7 billion of us on earth use the equivalent of a planet and a half of resources. Yet 870 Million People worldwide still today go to bed hungry. By the year 2050, there will be over 2 billion more mouths to feed, many in the dev
Forum Student Diversity program , now in its seventh year. 20 undergraduates, and for the first time, 10 graduate students, are here to gain insights into food and agriculture. So be sure to seek them out during the breaks. If you see them in the sessions , congratulate them for being here. Mentor them a little over the course of a couple days. That would be great. I know how important these young people are, because i have an alumnus of this program, johnnie jones, who works in my office. These are the people who are going to lead american agriculture in the future. Many thanks to our partner, the university of maryland, eastern shore, and the sponsors who make this possible, including the usda Natural Resources controversial and conservation service. Students, can i ask you to stand, please . There we go. Thank you. Congratulations. Without further ado, i am going to ask our chief economist to kick off this conference, with the traditional presentation on his economic and Foreign Tra
We opened up crp land, and changed premium payments, things of that nation that nature. It also got us thinking were there other steps, other things we should be doing, to provide help and assistance . It occurred to us perhaps we should be focused more acutely on the need to encourage multi cropping through the United States, in order for us to do a better job of conservation, to create biomass that could be a revenue source, and to potentially allow us to conserve precious water resources, which would in turn allow us to get through these drought circumstances in a more favorable circumstance. We have begun a process of looking at ways in which we could provide assistance. You will be fortunate to hear from a fellow by the name of david brant, who has a no till nutrient Management System he has put in place since the 1970s, that involves multi cropping. It saves about 100 an acre on nitrogen. It has increased its corn yield seven to 10 bushels an acre. That is something that ought to
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