The problem is that those former factory workers in Detroit do not move to Iowa and
become wheat farmers.
Not exact matches
A WA oat and
wheat grower has
become the first
farmer to lose his organic certification after his crop was contaminated by a neighbour's genetically modified canola crop.
In recent centuries potatoes have
become the world's most important tuber crop and its fourth most important source of food energy (after rice,
wheat, and maize):
farmers and gardeners grow them worldwide.
Farmers in Russia will change the time of
wheat planting [for example], and may switch to a different crop if the hot summer of today
becomes the norm of the future.»
In the Middle East, says a British researcher, hunters and gatherers
became farmers only when hard times forced them to collect the seeds of wild
wheat and barley intensively, and process them for food.
By 1881 the region had
become Dakota Territory; eight years later, settled by white ranchers and
farmers growing
wheat and sugar beets, it
became North Dakota.
Farmers have selectively bred
wheat species for specific traits for hundreds of years but in the 1960s, hybridization
became a science.