'AG IS WELL POSITIONED FOR THE FUTURE'

(Forbes) -- In a column published at Forbes.com, columnist Joel Kotkin writes, "No sector in America is better positioned for the future than agriculture -- if we allow it to reach its potential." The problem is, Kotkin writes, ag producers are in the "crosshairs of urban aesthetes and green activists who hope to impose their own Utopian vision of agriculture" -- replacing larger-scale operations "with small organic homesteads and urban gardens." He writes that "the assault on mainstream farmers is moving into the policy arena," with restrictions on water, pesticide use, animal production, and genetic engineering of crops. "The emerging war on agriculture threatens not only the livelihoods of millions of American workers," Kotkin writes. "It could undermine our ability to help feed the world." See more at http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/18/agriculture-farming-organic-opinions-columnists-joel-kotkin.html>