A Focus on America's Food Supply Your day begins with cereal, peaches, toast and orange juice. For lunch you have a fresh garden salad, lean hamburger, apple pie and a glass of milk.
Dinner offers barbecued chicken, delicious potato salad and fresh sweet corn.
All in all, not a bad day. The variety of food available is so vast that our diets are generally limited only by our imaginations. And the choices seem to keep growing year after year - even as the number of people producing our food keeps shrinking. Today, less than two percent of Americans are farmers, compared to 30 percent in 1920. Major developments in a variety of production areas have increased the efficiency of farming, making American food production one of the wonders of the world.