Agriculture Infrastructure
Labor management problems, transportation inadequacies, and the increasing concentration among suppliers can have adverse effects on the agriculture industry. NASDA believes in maintaining fairness and equity within the agriculture community through the development of a strong agriculture infrastructure.
The twentieth century was “America’s century,” and the success of our agricultural sector was critical to the nation’s preeminence. Infrastructure investments made in the nineteenth and twentieth century led our country into prosperity. Railroads, highways, electricity, communications and education — linking rural areas with urban, and the world, both physically and socially, were costly but necessary investments that enabled the people of the United States to become the best fed at the lowest price of any people in history. That infrastructure is crumbling however as we begin a new century. Nearly half of our agricultural production is exported and a large factor in our competitiveness in the world marketplace has been the efficiency of our transportation system. Without a substantial investment in our infrastructure, we cannot hold our preeminent position in food production