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Farm Foundation dialogue on feeding world
The not-for-profit Farm Foundation is holding a dialogue on how the U.S. can help feed the growing world population. Greg Heying says the foundation does a lot of work but this is a huge subject right now. Heying says technology is one of the keys, “We just sponsored a report on agricultural productivity and it’s clear that if we’re going to reach the goal to feed the world in 2050, agricultural productivity is going to have to increase 1.75% every year. And that, of course, compounds as time goes by.”
Heying says global agriculture production can improve in many ways with the expertise of the U.S. ag industry – nations in Africa, for example.
“Whether it happens to be folks from the seed companies,” Heying says, “Or whether it happens to be manufacturers of food product who source back to the growers who have great experience that can be brought to bear to help grow that productivity.”
Heying tells Brownfield the Farm Foundation has been in place for 78 years providing objective venues for all participants in the ag industry. It has 160 members on its “roundtable” – from producers to input providers to retailers – and deals with a variety of ag related issues.
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