Public role fades in crop and livestock breeding programs

The “slow atrophy of public funding” for plant-breeding programs “means that farmers have been left with fewer and fewer seed choices over the years and are ill-prepared to meet 21st Century needs,” says the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. “Over the past 20 years alone, we have lost over a third of our country’s public plant breeding… » Read More

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