For our future, someone has to think about dirt

Noted: An even bigger fix is in order, according to Bill Tracy, an agronomist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “This is where the Secretary of the Future would come in,” he said.Tracy said we need to think critically about having corn and soybeans as the nation’s biggest crops. There’s not only the problem of nitrate pollution from fertilizing corn to worry about, but there’s also soil erosion.