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Heisig, Carl P. Wheat production in war and peace (United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics; 1948) online, covers 1910 to 1944. Kingsman, Jonathan Charles. Out of the Shadows: The New Merchants of Grain (2019) Morgan, Dan. Merchants of Grain: The Power and Profits of the Five Giant Companies at the Center of the World's Food Supply (1980)
As a result, the Canadian seed bank has some enchanting rare seed selection, and in fact, there are more than 500 strains to go with. Furthermore, the seed bank also delivers cannabis seeds to all ...
Asgrow Seed Company sued Denny and Becky Winterboer over the scope of this exemption. Asgrow won at District Court, and then lost at the Court of Appeals. The scope of the exemption to sell seeds was confirmed and defined by the 1995 Supreme Court decision in Asgrow Seed Co. v. Winterboer, 513 U.S. 179 (1995). In 1994, legislation to bring the ...
A seed bank (also seed banks, seeds bank or seed vault) stores seeds to preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank. [1] There are many reasons to store seeds. One is to preserve the genes that plant breeders need to increase yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, nutritional quality, taste, etc. of crops.
Selective breeding techniques could create strains resistant to diseases like wheat blast while also producing crops that require less nitrogen fertilizer, a big greenhouse gas producer.
1973 - Pioneer obtains a soybean product line through the purchase of Peterson Seed Company. 1975 - Purchases Lankhartt and Lockett companies (cotton seed business). 1977 - Pioneer acquires Microbial Products division to develop bacterial strains for inoculation into silage. 1978 - Hy-Line International is spun off.
California produces almonds worth $5.3 billion every year. That is 100% of commercial almonds in the United States, 100% of all of North America, and 80% of commercial almonds around the world. Agriculture is a significant sector in California's economy, producing nearly US$50 billion in revenue in 2018.
Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 569 U.S. 278 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court patent decision in which the Court unanimously affirmed the decision of the Federal Circuit that the patent exhaustion doctrine does not permit a farmer to plant and grow saved, patented seeds without the patent owner's permission. [1]