Farmer’s Daughter: The 2020s promise a new shift in ag technology and perspective
1 min readAmanda Zaluckyj blogs under the name The Farmer’s Daughter USA. Her goal is to promote farmers and tackle the misinformation swirling around the U.S. food industry.
It’s 2020. We’ve entered a new decade. It’s an exciting time and a fresh start. Remember the dawn of 2010? If you think not much has changed, I challenge you to think about the cell phone you owned on Jan. 1 that year. Yeah, the world has definitely progressed! Personally, the last decade saw tremendous changes in my life. As the calendar turned to 2010, I was still in law school. I wasn’t writing about agriculture. And the idea hadn’t even crossed my mind yet. Agriculture has gone through quite a bit since then as well. We’ve seen a big economic downturn. We’ve added new technologies in a meaningful way. And cutting-edge advancements from 2010 are now commonplace. Consumer preferences have also shifted drastically. We saw the rise of the non-GMO label and plant-based meats and milks.
So what does this new decade have in store for agriculture? I’ve gazed into my crystal ball and read the tea leaves. And I’m ready to give you my predictions for the 2020s. […]