The effects of adverse economic conditions in U.S. agriculture upon the structure of farming have been given wide publicity. At the same time but less widely noted, a quiet revolution has taken hold of the ancillary industries supporting agriculture as they struggle to adapt to the changed...

The U.S. economy is undergoing structural changes that have led to a slow but steady decline in economic performance. This long, slow slide into economic mediocrity can only be reversed by significantly increasing investments in physical capital, research and development, human capital, and...

The new biology of the 1990s will integrate ecology and molecular biology in the service of agriculture. This new biology will surprise us. It will not present us with a cornucopia of genetically engineered chimeras. Nor will it present a plethora of chemically dependent cultivars, fragile in...