USG Notes that POPULATION growth has been dropping amongst all our major trading partners and will continue to do so
So we cannot expect to achieve prosperity through export markets, especially of foodstuffs. We need LOCAL production and consumption. Reduce export subsidies.
https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/publications/112849/EB-43.pdf
See page 13. Since most European countries and the US have birth rates that are lower than population maintenance rates, I wonder if the rise in population is entirely attributable to immigration, and whether efforts to turn this around will have a very large affect on reducing population size. USDA sent this out today but it is dated June 2025.
And this is what USDA has to say about these data:
Long-term trends of decreasing population growth are projected to continue over the next decade for most countries. Major U.S. trading partners with high incomes and declining fertility rates are expected to be especially affected. For example, the population growth rate for Japan has been below zero and the population has been shrinking since 2009. Japan was the top U.S. agricultural export destination by value from 1990 to 2003 but has since fallen to fifth place. Population size affects demand for food and agricultural products, and a slowly growing or declining consumer base can reduce demand for imported agricultural products, affecting export opportunities for U.S. farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses. The Eurozone is projected to have a near-zero (below 0.1 percent) population growth rate in 2025, a trend that is expected to continue for the next decade. For Mexico and Canada, population growth is projected to remain positive over the next decade (2025–34) but will grow at a slower rate than the previous decade (2015–24). Mexico and Canada are the largest and second-largest destinations, respectively, for U.S. agricultural exports. China, the third-largest purchaser of U.S. agricultural exports by value, is projected to experience negative population growth by 2034. This chart is drawn from USDA, Economic Research Service’s United States and Global Macroeconomic Projections from 2024 to 2034, June 2025.
Our household, my daughter and I, buy organic local produce. Recently, I read that organic produce from Mexico was found to contain quite a number of pesticides and contaminants. Our health food market's produce section only contains organic produce, but it is disturbing to see its "organic" tomatoes come from Mexico. My daughter tried growing food, but living in the desert with temperatures going up to 120 degrees in the summer...she did not have .a lot of luck. We were blessed that our fruit trees produced this summer.
The scamdemic seems to have served the purpose t was intended to , reducing population....as ScKamala Harris famously stated, that she was interested in just that, I e., depopulation, sic