population

With a growing global population, and increased environmental expectations, farmers are in a challenging spot right now.  Ashley Green, Digital Ag Solutions Marketing Lead for Syngenta, said farm country will need to increase food output by 1.7% annual...

Whether the growth is 50% or in some estimates as high as 70%, there needs to be a significant increase in food production to feed the world's growing population, which is projected to reach roughly ten billion people by the year 2050.  That was agreed upon by speakers in USDA's Ag outlook forum, but what will that future look like? ...

Last week, the Department of Agriculture said population losses in non-metro classified counties reached nearly 150,000 in the last five years.  However, USDA said the number of individual non-metro counties losing population in a five-year period reached a 50-year high of 1,320, with a net population loss of nearly 650,000.  ...