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Plant breeding for a limited workforce
Apr 6, 2017, 10:35 AM
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A vegetable researcher says specialty crop breeding is starting to find solutions for a lack of farm workers.
John Purcell, Global R&D Lead for Monsanto Vegetables, tells Brownfield seed companies are researching traits that will allow farmers to produce crops more efficiently with less labor.
“Some of it is having better agronomic traits, things like disease-resistances that allow for better management of crops, but others are making sure we have very uniform maturities so it reduces the time it takes to harvest.
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