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Shortly after he took charge of the Rockefeller Foundation's wheat-improvement program in Mexico 26 years ago, a young American plant pathologist named Norman E. Borlaug began a momentous series of cross-breeding experiments. With the germ plasm of plants from four different countries, he succeeded in developing a remarkable new kind of wheat that was able to flourish in all of Mexico's widely varied growing conditions. His work quickly put Mexico on the road to self-sufficiency in wheat production. But it had an even more important result: it sowed the seeds of the Green...
...establishing relations with China, Canada was pleasing a good customer. Since 1961, when Canada first began selling wheat to Peking, China has become the country's ninth largest trading partner. Exports during the first seven months of 1970 totaled $100,729,000. Because Canada buys little but peanuts and cotton pants in return, the trade accounted for an $89 million balance of payments surplus. It could grow larger if the Chinese would begin buying Canadian newsprint and potash. Trudeau, who visited China in 1960 with Jacques Hébert and co-authored a book called Two Innocents in China...
Last week's full moon was the harvest moon, round and rich as the nation's produce has been this year. Across the plains, wheat farmers threshed bumper crops. Potato growers from Maine to Idaho were unearthing what should be a record yield-about 314 million hundredweight for the year. The hops of Oregon's Willamette Valley are in the sacks. The agribusiness entrepreneurs of California's San Joaquin Valley have had another good year in cotton. The peaches of Comus, Md., have rarely been juicier. Helminthosporium maydis-the wind-borne spore of Southern corn blight...
...Frederick J. Stare, head of the Department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, thinks shredded wheat is good for you, and he told a Senate subcommittee so last...
...Turkey and elsewhere, however, U.S. efforts run squarely into the private-profit motive. For example, a Turkish farmer can receive as much as $94 if he sells the harvest of an acre of poppies to smugglers. By contrast, he stands to earn only $4.83 an acre if he grows wheat...