Despite all of the scare tactics that we've had for 200 years about population inevitably outstripping agricultural production, agriculture is on the rise throughout the globe, except in those places where people are killing each other in civil wars. In the U. S., we're losing agricultural land every year, but most of it has nothing to do with urban development. Most of it's just because you don't need the land. The amount of land we have for agriculture is so great that about 50 percent of the annual income of farmers in the U. S. is government subsidy, because we just don't need all of that food.
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Some kind of adjustment has to happen. Home prices have been growing so fast for so long, outstripping income growth for many years.
Demand for gas is outstripping expectations and the question is how storage will fare as it appears we will be drawing on it much earlier than normal.
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
I'm extremely pleased with the progress that our minority students are making, ... They are outstripping the gains made across the United States by a greater margin than even our student population as a whole. That bodes well for our state.
The pace of development is outstripping our ability to manage the environmental issue. Our unwritten energy policy is dig it up and sell it as fast as possible.
I think the overall picture is going to be one of extreme strength and the pool of labor is not getting any bigger, ... The Fed's concern is that wage increases will start outstripping productivity gains. So far that hasn't been a problem but that's what people are looking for in this week's report.
What's happening is fundamentally that the world oil market is extremely tight and crude prices are rising, partly because demand is outstripping supply and partly because of the geopolitical pressures that we're reading about every day in the papers.
Demand is vastly outstripping supply. It's not surprising that some of the dealers are going to the DMO because it's difficult to make a market in these conditions.
The demand for concrete has been outstripping supply for several years. We've become more steadily dependent on imports.
Right now the demand is outstripping the supply. This data is for 2002. . . . I fully expect the next time we see this data (for 2007), Utah will exceed the national average.
Our country has been asleep at the switch on these things. The basic economics are that the supply of fossil fuels is limited and the demand is outstripping the supply. It's a recipe for continued crisis if we don't start changing our ways.
If this continues, you'll have demand outstripping supply over the next five years by a wide margin.