Volunteers are still needed for this event. The center provides more than 20 service programs for student volunteers. The new century will be a turning point in agriculture. Avery directs The Hudson Institute's Center for Global Food Issues, the agriculture and environmental policy research group of the institute's overall public policy analysis focus. He also served as an agriculture analyst for the U.S. Department of State from 1980-1988.
Prosperity depends on whether world trade rules allow farmers to sell to China, India and Indonesia.
Avery said that thanks to increased yields, made possible by biotechnology, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and improved management practices, American farmers continue to feed more and more people on less and less land. Consequently, most people don't appreciate the good that agriculture does and are often against the things that make high-yield farming possible. We have saved wildlife and fed people and yet farmers are being beaten up for being bad to the environment. That's pretty stupid on everyone's part. Farmers ought to be bragging, and they should be grateful, and I don't see either one happening.