Fruit and vegetable production could help balance agricultural trade deficit
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Farm Action
Many people believe it is impossible for the U.S. to balance its agricultural trade deficit.
Farm Action’s Sarah Carden shares a shocking stat that it could actually be done by shifting a minuscule fraction of cropland towards fruit and vegetable production.
“They were projecting in 2024, a $32 billion agricultural trade deficit.”
“Because specialty crops are more valuable, you would only need to shift about 0.4% of the cropland into specialty crops just to balance that trade deficit.”