re: Once the Bread Basket of the World, The United States Now Needs International Food Relief:

No one has a given a damn about American agriculture for years. We have taken for granted what we had been blessed with. American farmers were traditionally the best in the world. Family farms have been crushed and driven out for decades now. China and Bill Gates have been buying up much of our farmland. Take a look at what is happening to Sri Lanka right now. It isn't pretty.