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Research and Education Are the Keys to Agricultural Progress

Animal Husbandry Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland

ABSTRACT

We Americans have the privilege of enjoying the most abundant, varied, nutritious, and safe food supply in the world. This food is available to us at a lower cost than it is for most any other people in terms of the labor income required to purchase it. We have ample quantities of the needed foods, so that all of our people could have the ingredients of a truly balanced diet. This is not to say, however, that all of our people presently are consuming an adequate diet.

The American farmer has provided this abundant, high-quality food supply while at the same time utilizing a steadily declining percentage of the nation's working force and while sharing in a proportionately decreasing percentage of the national income.

All of this has been possible because farmers have been introducing revolutionary changes in their methods of operations, which have resulted in increased yields and in increased efficiency of production.

¹ Presented at the annual meeting, Southern Division, American Dairy Science Association, Jackson, Mississippi, February 9, 1961.