An Increasingly Tough Row to Hoe
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For generations, America’s farmers have contended with the vagaries of weather, politics, and markets both domestic and global, while still delivering their produce to a hungry nation and the world.
Agriculture and related industries, says the U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, contributed roughly $1.537 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023, a 5.5-percent share.
The output of America’s farms contributing $222.3 billion of that sum, while “the overall contribution of agriculture to GDP is larger than 0.8 percent because secto...
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