Abstract
Abstract Over the last 50 years, U.S. agriculture has been transformed from a resource-based industry to a science-based industry. It has been transformed from a traditional to a high-technology sector. There are relatively few sectors in the U.S. economy that have been able to maintain their technological leadership. Agriculture is one of those sectors. The future growth of the U.S. economy will depend very heavily on those sectors that are able to maintain their technological leadership—that can continue to generate the dividends resulting from productivity growth. We are part of a world in which scientific and technological leadership in agriculture can no longer be ours by default. Some countries seem more willing than the United States to recognize and to build on complementarity between the public and private sectors. If we are to realize the gains from this complementarity it will place a special burden on each of the 3 major performers of agricultural research—federal, state, and private—to recognize their responsibility for supporting policies that will maintain the strength of the other 2.
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