” … about 40 percent of all the food produced in the United States goes uneaten. That amounts to $165 billion of wasted food every year …”
” … NRDC estimated that the unsold broccoli grown in just one county (Monterey County, California) required 2.5 billion gallons of water to grow (yes, that billions with a “b”, in a state where the water wars will only intensify as water becomes more scarce). Chemical fertilizers and pesticides impact farmworkers and the environment whether the product makes it to market or not.”
Owning a farm is a tough business.
read the full article at the Institute for Agriculture and Food Policy website.