Source: WRAL TECHWIRE, 9/28/16

“This is the best time ever to be alive and to be in agriculture,” Lowell Catlett, Ph.D, an economist and futurist, told the lunch session at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s AgBiotech Summit 2016 in Chapel Hill Tuesday. It was a refrain Catlett repeated often as he traced how agricultural science has met the challenges of feeding the world’s ballooning population and how it will continue to do so.

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