TY - JOUR T1 - Sustainable agriculture: Who will lead? JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 89 LP - 91 VL - 45 IS - 1 AU - Fee Busby Y1 - 1990/01/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/45/1/89.abstract N2 - SUSTAINABLE agriculture is a dialogue—a discussion among people of many different backgrounds and interests, a search for both questions and answers. The result of the dialogue will be the development of a philosophy—a philosophy that describes the paradigm shift that I think we are experiencing. Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus in Leaders, the Strategies for Taking Change, describe a paradigm shift as a “major turning point in history…where some new height of vision is sought, where some new fundamental redefinitions are required, where our table of values will have to be reviewed.” Leadership in low-input and related agricultural issues requires that everyone contribute to this change by providing vision, redefinition, and value review. Many of us participated in the industrialization and chemicalization of U.S. agriculture. The same people are now leading a new movement in agriculture-an agriculture that will use off-farm, purchased inputs more efficiently and effectively, minimize adverse impacts of the farming system on the environment and on the health of producers as well as consumers, and enhance farm profitability while sustaining the natural resources on which agriculture depends. A. T. Mosher, one of the leaders of the agricultural … ER -