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Global agricultural productivity growth is in steep decline, and current efforts to expand sustainable agriculture production to feed a growing global population are inadequate to deal with the challenges that the world faces, that according to the 2022 Global Agricultural Productivity Report, produced by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech.  ...

Importers of wheat and other grains around the world are busy trying to figure out what the conflict in Ukraine will do to global supplies for wheat and other grains and how to cover their needs for this next season. Jason Grant, Virginia Tech University Trade Analyst, said, fortunately, thanks to the productivity of U ...

Last week, Virginia Tech released an annual report that indicates the agriculture industry is behind the needed pace to meet the world’s food needs in the year 2050. The 2021 Global Agricultural Productivity Report said global productivity growth needs to accelerate at all production scales to meet consumers’ needs and address the current and future threats to human and environmental well-being.

An annual report from Virginia Tech University shows agriculture is behind the pace of meeting the productivity needs of 2050. The 2021 Global Agricultural Productivity Report urges the acceleration of productivity growth at all production scales to meet consumers' needs and address human and environmental well-being threats ...

A recent study conducted by Washington State University shows older adults living in very rural settings are less likely than those living closer to urban centers to receive available health, nutrition and transportation services. Raven Weaver, assistant professor at WSU, noted while service disparities between rural and urban older adults are well known, these findings distinguish between differ

The severity varies commodity to commodity, but most would agree there has been negative repercussions from the trade war with China and other nations.  But, has the Trump Administration’s hard ball trade stance done any harm to the Ag industry long term?   “...