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On industry realities and related business concerns: “Modern production agriculture applies a tremendous amount of mechanical, information, and biological technology. Many sectors have consolidated rapidly and are dominated by a relative few very large organizations. People outside the industry think American Gothic, while those in the industry put the advances in genetic engineering, global positioning systems,and sensor technology to work. Of course, there is a growing demand for a ‘lower input’ agriculture organic, natural, etc. But, ‘lower input’ does not mean less management in most cases and even manyfirms in this area are growing quickly to meet a growing demand.”