"Agricultural innovations primarily coming from the United States [...]"
Love this "everything is invented in the US" syndrome.
"Justus von Liebig was a German chemist who [...] has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant nutrients, and his formulation of the law of the minimum, which described how plant growth relied on the scarcest nutrient resource, rather than the total amount of resources available. He also developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts [...]"
The fact you have to head back to the 19th century isn't a very good refutation. I mean I would be happy to hear of recent unsung international science and innovations.
Love this "everything is invented in the US" syndrome.
"Justus von Liebig was a German chemist who [...] has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant nutrients, and his formulation of the law of the minimum, which described how plant growth relied on the scarcest nutrient resource, rather than the total amount of resources available. He also developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts [...]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_von_Liebig