An air quality specialist says there is an underlying sustainability issue in agriculture that needs to be addressed that is equally or even more important than reducing emissions.
Dr. Frank Mitloehner at the University of California-Davis says 80,000 of the two million farmers and ranchers in the U.S. generate two-thirds of all the food produced in the country, and their average age is 60.
“What if those 80,000 farmers say you know what, there’s too much pressure on us as a group and I’m not interested in passing that along to the next generation,” he says.
