Farming for an Uncertain Future

New York Times: Nearly 40 years ago, while teaching environmental studies at California State University in Sacramento, Wes Jackson began reflecting that something about the country's agricultural practices wasn't quite right. Soon that instinct grew into a powerful itch. "The source of that itch was things like, my golly, do we want to be putting those chemicals out here? And my golly, look at that soil erosion. Don't we have a conservation service, or aren't they paying attention? And my golly, look at the...

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