SAN ANTONIO — While the European Union and the United States are together feeding the world, their agriculture policies differ, the EU's Agriculture Counsellor Giulio Melato told workshop attendees at the American Farm Bureau Federation's 95th Annual Convention.
The European Union has 13.7 million farms, Melato said. About 70 percent of those are less than 10 acres and 92 percent are family farms. Those farms employ 17 million people and comprise 6 percent of the EU's gross domestic product.
With 50 percent of Europe's land area devoted to agriculture, "We have a different reality in Europe. . .