Peter Timmer

And it was pretty much invented. by Walmart.

And it was pretty much invented. by Walmart.

And it was pretty much invented. by Walmart.

So the U.S. experience is formative. And it's formative for two reasons. One, U.S. universities train so many ag economists, food scientists, food policy people to go back to other countries that the U.S. model is pretty well ingrained intellectually. But the other thing, of course, is the biological and mechanical technologies mostly came out of the United States.

So the U.S. experience is formative. And it's formative for two reasons. One, U.S. universities train so many ag economists, food scientists, food policy people to go back to other countries that the U.S. model is pretty well ingrained intellectually. But the other thing, of course, is the biological and mechanical technologies mostly came out of the United States.

So the U.S. experience is formative. And it's formative for two reasons. One, U.S. universities train so many ag economists, food scientists, food policy people to go back to other countries that the U.S. model is pretty well ingrained intellectually. But the other thing, of course, is the biological and mechanical technologies mostly came out of the United States.

Well, you know, we clearly won the food wars in terms of supply and abundance. We won the abundance war. What we may be in the process of losing is the health aspect. and quality dimensions going forward.

Well, you know, we clearly won the food wars in terms of supply and abundance. We won the abundance war. What we may be in the process of losing is the health aspect. and quality dimensions going forward.

Well, you know, we clearly won the food wars in terms of supply and abundance. We won the abundance war. What we may be in the process of losing is the health aspect. and quality dimensions going forward.

If we had worried much, much more about the quality of farmland, of sustainability, about environmental side effects from heavy fertilization on corn, you know, we've got a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that is directly attributable to putting fertilizer on corn up in the Midwest. I accused my brothers of poisoning the Gulf of Mexico, and they said, well, what are we going to do?

If we had worried much, much more about the quality of farmland, of sustainability, about environmental side effects from heavy fertilization on corn, you know, we've got a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that is directly attributable to putting fertilizer on corn up in the Midwest. I accused my brothers of poisoning the Gulf of Mexico, and they said, well, what are we going to do?

If we had worried much, much more about the quality of farmland, of sustainability, about environmental side effects from heavy fertilization on corn, you know, we've got a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that is directly attributable to putting fertilizer on corn up in the Midwest. I accused my brothers of poisoning the Gulf of Mexico, and they said, well, what are we going to do?

We have to get high yields. There was this sense of everybody being trapped in an old paradigm. And now, how do we break out of that? I hate to say it, but the current government seems to be trying to take us back to the old paradigm rather than a more sustainable, environmentally friendly, let's make agriculture do more on organic and natural processes.

We have to get high yields. There was this sense of everybody being trapped in an old paradigm. And now, how do we break out of that? I hate to say it, but the current government seems to be trying to take us back to the old paradigm rather than a more sustainable, environmentally friendly, let's make agriculture do more on organic and natural processes.

We have to get high yields. There was this sense of everybody being trapped in an old paradigm. And now, how do we break out of that? I hate to say it, but the current government seems to be trying to take us back to the old paradigm rather than a more sustainable, environmentally friendly, let's make agriculture do more on organic and natural processes.

That doesn't seem to be the political driver right now, but it has to come back. We have to make agriculture green, which is a strange thing to say.

That doesn't seem to be the political driver right now, but it has to come back. We have to make agriculture green, which is a strange thing to say.

That doesn't seem to be the political driver right now, but it has to come back. We have to make agriculture green, which is a strange thing to say.

When I was a Fulbright scholar and had to explain myself to the cohort when we got to London, I said, well, my background is tomatoes. And everybody just laughed. I hadn't realized that it was not such a normal background.

When I was a Fulbright scholar and had to explain myself to the cohort when we got to London, I said, well, my background is tomatoes. And everybody just laughed. I hadn't realized that it was not such a normal background.