Category Archives: Speeches

Comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency, On the Proposed Five-year Strategic Plan for the FSA

Comments to the USDA’s Farm Service Agency, On the Proposed Five-Year Strategic Plan for the FSA Dennis Avery and Dr. Thomas Elam Submitted February 10, 2004, in connection with the meeting of the agency’s external stakeholders at the Wyndham Hotel, … Continue reading

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Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century

Presentation to the National Turkey Federation: The Moral Challenge of the 21st Century Dennis Avery . . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts. . . and there are such great cities where … Continue reading

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Who Will Produce the World’s Food (and Pork) in the Next Decade?

Presented at the Hyologisk 25th Anniversary Conference Braedstrup, Denmark Alex Avery February 4, 2004 A dozen years ago, I retired from the U.S. State Department-and began a mission to convince First World farmers they had more to gain from free … Continue reading

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21st Century Consumer War: Mythical Organic Utopia versus High Yield Conservation

Alex Avery Presented December 11, 2003 National Agricultural Aviators Association Reno, Nevada For two decades, an epic war has engulfed society between those who look backward toward a fictional natural past – an organic utopia – and those who look … Continue reading

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Has America Already Lost High-Yield Agriculture?

Dennis T. Avery America has had a proud two centuries of world leadership in high-yield agricultural research and technology. It stretches back to George Washington’s farming experiments and Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act to create the land-grant colleges and agricultural … Continue reading

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Engineering A Sustainable–and Sustaining–World Food Supply

Dennis T. Avery This speech was given before the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in Chicago, IL The Declaration for High-Yield Agriculture On April 30, 2002, a new “Declaration in Support of Protecting Nature With High-Yield Farming and Forestry” was … Continue reading

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The World Really Needs High-Yield Ag: It Just Doesn’t Know it Yet!

Alex A. Avery The Rev. Thomas Malthus’ famous question about whether humanity can continue to feed all the people was posed exactly 200 years ago. It has taken us nearly all of that 200 years to be sure of an … Continue reading

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Dennis Avery’s UC Berkeley Commencement Address

Dennis T. Avery Leading a 21st Century Global Triumph for the Environment Commencement Address, University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources, May 21, 2000 ” . . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out … Continue reading

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High-Yield Conservation: The Only Global Sustainability for the 21st Century

Alex A. Avery Humanity faces a daunting task as we enter the 21st century: Feeding a larger, more affluent world a better diet while at the same time conserving wildlife habitat, biodiversity and ecological integrity. The world is in the … Continue reading

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Will the World Throw Away High Yield Agriculture?

Alex A. Avery Speech to the National Potato Promotion Board, Denver, Colorado The Rev. Thomas Malthus’ famous question about whether humanity can continue to feed all the people was posed exactly 200 years ago. It has taken us nearly all … Continue reading

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