An ag economist is surprised the geographical spread of agriculture hasn’t changed more in the last 50 years. Ohio State University’s Carl Zulauf points to technology as the reason why.
“Technology has tended to be defused across the U.S.,” he said.
He said while improvements in areas like seed technology caused small geographical shifts, the improvements have boosted yields everywhere.
Zulauf tells Brownfield technology would also be the cause if different U.S.