Sentences with phrase «organic plant breeding»

Each year OSA educates thousands of farmers and other agricultural community members, conducts professional organic plant breeding and seed production research, and advocates for national policies to strengthen organic seed systems.

Seed Matters also recently announcement that Kara Young of OSU had been awarded Seed Matters» organic plant breeding fellowship.

In June 2015, Clif Bar & Company announced a plan to raise $ 10 million by 2020 to fund the nation's first endowed chairs in organic plant breeding at public universities in the United States.

Each year OSA educates thousands of farmers and other agricultural community members, conducts professional organic plant breeding and seed production research, and advocates for national policies to strengthen organic seed systems.

(2005) Proceedings of the COST SUSVAR / ECO-PB Workshop on organic plant breeding strategies and the use of molecular markers.

Proceedings of COST SUSVAR / ECO-PB Workshop on organic plant breeding strategies and the use of molecular markers, Driebergen, Netherlands, 17 - 19 January 2005.

and Østergård, H. (2007) European perspectives of organic plant breeding and seed production in a genomics era.

[European perspectives of organic plant breeding and seed production in a genomics era.]

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Theresa has been an active member of the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society's Farm Breeding Club, working to develop farmer - breeder partnerships to address the plant breeding and plant variety improvement needs of organic Breeding Club, working to develop farmer - breeder partnerships to address the plant breeding and plant variety improvement needs of organic breeding and plant variety improvement needs of organic farmers.

Breeds that worked under a conventional system won't necessarily stand up under organic management, which, without synthetic drugs and pesticides, needs plants and animals to hold their own.

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

Those approaches should include modern conventional plant - breeding methods, sustainable and organic farming, and other sophisticated farming practices that do not require farmers to pay significant up - front costs.

For Jane Dever, a former global plant breeding manager at Bayer CropScience, the switch to a career in organic and non-GMO foods was all about following... Read More»

Professor Myers authored the first comprehensive textbook on plant breeding for organic agriculture.

According to Richard Merrill, a well known proponent of organic agriculture in California, portraying infected genomes as the same as traditional trial plant breeding is misleading at best because you can't save seeds.