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    1. Plant breeders and geneticists seeding solutions. How did Dan Barber get it so wrong?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gale, Wayne (author / Chair, American Seed Trade Association)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2019-06-18
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11041
    Notes:
    The June 7, 2019 commentary by Barber in the New York Times was retrieved online at: https://seedfreedom.info/opinion-save-our-food-free-the-seed. It is filed with this document., Online via seedworld.com. 3 pages., Response to an opinion piece in the New York Times by celebrity chef Dan Barber. Barber reported on visiting a 24,000-acre farm in North Dakota and observing the large scale of operations. He concluded: "We should be alarmed by the current architects." In this commentary author Gale offered a differing view of the changes in plant breeding and the seed industry over the past 100-plus years - and what they mean for the future.