Nibbles: Bent, Rice, Cheez, Pavlovsk, Millennium Seed Bank, Livestock, EUCARPIA

Fine memoir of Sir Bent Skovmand. Thanks Dag.
Rice yields falling — and not just in experimental stations. The paper.
In all the eulogies to the inventor of the Cheez Doodle, a note of truth.
You could buy the Pavlovsk genebank site for just USD3.3 million, it says here. Is that even doable?
Meanwhile, over in England, Researchers Rush to Fill Noah’s Ark Seed Bank While Politicians Bicker.
Meanwhile, in Australia, worries about declines in livestock diversity.
EUCARPIA’s meetings calendar. Handy.