Everything you eat, wear and live in.....
The truth is agriculture has a new secretary. The promotion of agriculture is the largest thing on the plate of any administration. There is an international war being waged for the market share. Check out the Chicago Exchange.
The point is everything you eat almost everything you wear and the homes you live in all come from agriculture. Fosil fuels are also a commodity.
Every person in the world is a consumer in the agriculture market, every day. And they always will be. The resurgence in small agricultural farms, organic farming and the ancilary industries is gigantic in this country alone.
Certainly the 800 million farmers in China are anxious to market to the world. And the advent of internet technologies has make this information management essential for every nation to compete. Even the good ole USA.
I live in the highest production financial market for agriculture in the US. Last year California sold 6 billion dollars of cotton alone to Japan.
Agriculture uses computers, trucks, water, and more energy than any other industry. More of the transportation industry, my specialty is involved in the movement of agricultural products than any other thing. Take everything out of Walmart that is not produced by agriculture and you have a 7-11.
I hate to differ with you on this, but I did my research. We are speaking to the Indian market at this moment where 70% of the population earns its income from ag industries. That alone is more than three times the population of the US. Then there is Canada, then there is CAFTA, then there is South America, then there is Lumber, then there is wool, soy, then there is no end to these markets.
Perhaps a little time on google could change your mind. Just type in Cotton, Corn, Soy, or maybe just look around your house and see what did not come from agriculture. Your carpeting, your bedding and God forbid you get sick, nearly all of your pharmaceuticals. But this industry wont dry up like IPODs or ever become obsolete like the computer I am writing this on.
Sorry to pontificate, but market shares come and go. There is more food being grown and consumed, more clothes being worn and homes being built than ever before. The biotech field alone is worth billions in development. In education there are litteraly thousands of purely agricultural colleges.
Well, its late and I had to respond. I think you have to have a bigger picture in your head than who is winning the greatest market share right now. In my opionion the Canadians are doing ag right.
www.farm.tv or any other canadian website will show you that.
