During the past few decades, the world has seen a dramatic increase in overall food production and an equally dramatic increase in the use of our natural agricultural resources.
Worldwide agriculture continues to show positive trends. That is good. But, in order to get increases in crop production, some of the methods utilized may not have been so good.
Much of the crop increase is due to the revolution in agricultural technology, which was based on higher yielding seeds, first introduced into world production in the early and mid 1960s.
Resultant increased yields of crops so vital to an ever increasing population were also fueled by the addition of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, equipment mechanization, and, of course, the intensified use of water.
