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Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and Iowa State Univ., 209 Curtiss Hall, Ames, IA 50011-1050
* Corresponding author (leopold1{at}iastate.edu)
Received for publication April 4, 2006. Industrial agriculture, which is grounded in the industrial principlesspecialization, simplification and concentrationthat inform all industrial economies, has been exceptionally successful for the past half century. But, as we enter the 21st century this modern agriculture will be facing a number of serious challenges that may force the abandonment of these principles in favor of a more diversified, complex system of food and fiber production.
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