SC Commissioner Weathers: SASDA Meetings Recap

It was great few days in Williamsburg catching up with fellow Southeastern commissioners and secretaries and state staff.
A lot of good tours, events, meetings, and networking
Dr. David Kohl from Virginia Tech specializes in ag economics and he provided some good insight and trends worldwide:
- By 2040, 2/3 of wealth will be owned by females
- China: the one child rule for 35 years and now they have almost no workforce, retirement age. Most of their wealth invested in their homes.
- India: surpassed China in population and the median age is 29. Government limitations on exports.
- Europe in general: 20 percent of world economy
- He talked about trends for quarter century strategic planning and those were interesting: things like water and soil health, regenerative practices, agri-entrepreneurs like startups and value-added, women in management and ownership within agriculture, consumers and society drive trends
In our SASDA meeting, we had very good and productive conversations addressing things both at the state level and regional commonalities:
- Foreign seafood mislabeling