Today's crop farmers, with their prices
global and their costs local, are ensnared in an ever-tightening
profit squeeze. Many of them have begun seeking alternative crops
that command higher prices or pay dividends by boosting the yields
of rotational crops. Diversifying can soften impacts on environmental
resources, spread farmers' economic risk, exploit profitable niche
markets and-by creating new industries based on renewable agriculture
resources-strengthen rural communities. This bulletin describes
some of the many agronomic crop alternatives, with plentiful examples
of on-farm successes.
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