Thomas Harris, University of Nevada, Reno professor and director of the Center for Economic Development, about local food exporters.”]Think of this story. When Eisenhower was president, there was a milk glut, and he encouraged everyone to drink an extra glass of milk. The problem was, there’s only so much milk a person is going to drink. It’s the same thing with agriculture. Farmers and ranchers are extremely productive, and there’s only so much they can sell to U.S. consumers. That’s one reason why global export markets play such an important role in our economy.”
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