The “Age of Agricultural Ignorance”: Trends and Concerns for Agriculture Knee-Deep into the Twenty–First Century

STERLING EVANS served as president of the Agricultural History Society in 2017-2018. This article is based on his presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the society in St. Petersburg, Florida, on May 24, 2018. He thanks Anne Effland, Bert Way, and Tim Bowman for their helpful feedback on the presentation for this article, and thanks his father, Cecil Evans, for recommending some of the sources used in the research.