High Prices Sow Seeds of Erosion

In CategoryAgriculture, Farming, Etc
ByRuss Bianchi

Propaganda to push genetically modified FRANKEN-FOOD seeds.

~ Uncle Russ

When prices for corn and soybeans surged last fall, Bill Hammitt, a farmer in the fertile hill country of western Iowa, began to see the bulldozers come out, clearing steep hillsides of trees and pastureland to make way for more acres of the state’s staple crops.

High Prices Sow Seeds of Erosion

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Rare, Unique Seeds Arrive at Svalbard Vault, as Crises Threaten World Crop Collections

In CategoryAgriculture, Farming, Etc, Genetic Modification
ByRuss Bianchi

Shoot all Death Merchants and other GMO representatives on sight getting anywhere near this last best hope.

~ Uncle Russ

ScienceDaily (Feb. 25, 2011) — The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) celebrated its third anniversary February 24 with the arrival of seeds for rare lima beans, blight-resistant cantaloupe, and progenitors of antioxidant-rich red tomatoes from Peru and the Galapagos Islands. The arrival of these collections, including many drought- and flood-resistant varieties, comes at a time when natural and human-made risks to agriculture have reinforced the critical need to secure all the world’s food crop varieties.

Rare, Unique Seeds Arrive at Svalbard Vault, as Crises Threaten World Crop Collections

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Plant biology: Growth industry

In CategoryAgriculture, Farming, Etc
ByRuss Bianchi

To learn the chemical language of plants, Ian Baldwin has built up a German research empire that engineers seeds — and a field station in the Utah wilderness to grow them.

Plant biology: Growth industry

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