Through interviews and reenactments, The Natural History of the Chicken investigates the role of the chicken in American life and tells several remarkable stories.
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Pawnee corn pix
Our friend Karen Williams at the USDA has written in. Lets really push our luck here, and ask whether anyone out there has any information about the USDA’s display case collections?
The story of the Pawnee maize is fascinating! You have probably seen the display cases in Beltsville of the collection of maize varieties.
Years ago, David [Williams] and I were involved in getting all the samples photographed… Unfortunately, the display cases are so old (1930s or earlier) that no documentation on their history exists. We don’t even know who collected them. They predate the NPGS so there are no corresponding germplasm samples.
BBC’s Nature Inc. tackles “one sexy tuber”
…some agribusinesses and farmers are seeing sustainable profits and productivity in encouraging crop diversity.
This I gotta see. But, alas, probably wont. Please watch and let us know how exactly agribusiness is encouraging potato diversity.
Nibbles: Agroforestry, Forecasts, Coffee, Pigs, GIS, Potatoes
- North American Agroforestry; new edition of an old book.
- “Supply will go up, demand will go up, and real prices of grain and oilseeds also will go up” over next 10 years. That’s nice.
- Nescafe coffee goes green in Philippines.
- Rare-breed jamon at $490 a leg. Not so marginal any more.
- Visualizing Tweeter biodiversity observations. Over to you, Luigi.
- Ireland hosts International Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium meeting. Well, obviously.
Searching for seeds, and hope
Some people have emailed me from the blog and accused me of saying Indian people must stay poor and we must go back to the stone age. This is not at all what I believe.
Adam Forbes, after a year in search of seeds, tells us what he does believe.