World Food Prize Dialogue Focuses on Next Generation
With World Food Day on the horizon, hundreds of people gathered in Des Moines, Iowa for the World Food Prize Symposium. Started by Nobel Laureate, Norman Borlaug in 1986, the World Food Prize recognizes individuals for their efforts to increase food production globally through innovation in agriculture. The 2011 symposium, called the “Borlaug Dialogue,” placed focus on [...]
Monsanto News Lowdown
There is a lot of news at Monsanto this week. Here is a quick read of everything that is going on. Corn Farmers Saved $50M in Insurance Premiums by Planting Biotech And on it goes…Monsanto vs. DuPont Roundup Ready® Alfalfa Goes to the Supreme Court Calling All Rice and Wheat Breeders
Remembering Norman Borlaug
By Theodore Crosbie, Ph.D. Vice President, Global Plant Breeding I first met Norman Borlaug as a graduate student in Plant Breeding at Iowa State University. My classmates and I dutifully filed into the agronomy auditorium to hear another Thursday seminar that afternoon in 1973. Our speaker was viewed as a feisty renegade. At the time, [...]
