Megatrends reshaping American agriculture and agricultural universities

Abstract

A cluster of interlocking megatrends is converging to make twenty-first-century agricul­ture much different from its twentieth-century counterpart. These trends are not novel, twenty-first-century phenomena. We saw them begin to stir during the waning years of the last century, and now they are upon us, reshaping both US agriculture industries and the land-grant universities that have traditionally served them.