Show Another Knowledge Gap At one onetime time most people were were farm ers This of course has changed One modern businessman agri-businessman farmer today produces on the average enough h to feed more than 40 people Nowhere has there been bern a greater revolution than In technology of agriculture And no revolution revolution ution has brought Beater ben benefits fits to more people From the standpoint of the farmer however it has been a mixed blessing As more and more people have lost touch with the facts of f life on the farm public understanding of agricultural matters matterA has declined We hear a lot about meat prices for example Yet through technology and greater producing and handling efficiency meat Is a better buy today than ever be be- for A publication of the National Stock and Meat Board has observed For no more of their tax after Income than it took 20 years ago Americans are getting 40 more pounds of meat per capita including a whopping 66 60 per cent more beef i In the same period the average disposable income in the U. U S. S has jumped by more than 50 per cent The publication also notes that a pound of beef or pork or lamb lambIn In the retail counter ounce ounce for ounce for Isan is isan isan an improved protein product Agriculture has be become orne another of those basic Industries that has little direct direct dir dit e t contact with consumers Probably not one consumer in a hundred has the remotest idea of the blood sweat and tears required from the range ran to the retail counter to place a meal on the family dinner table One of the biggest rest of agriculture is to try to close this knowledge gap |