Looming problems in antibiotics a warning for plant breeding
(January 19, 2017) I had a great-aunt who only lived for nine days in 1919. Like so many children and young women in the age before antibiotics she was killed by a simple bacterium that can now be cured with a short round of antibiotics. From the 1930s onward those antibiotics were developed by dozens of private companies driven by a profit motive usually provided by government procurements to...
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by admin on Feb 5, 2014 in Articles and Letters
– Eric Sagan, Melville, Sask. I have just received my 2014 Saskatchewan Seed Guide. I have counted approximately 70 different wheat varieties and approximately 24 different barley varieties which are mostly Plant Breeders Rights protected which really means farmers have to pay more There is also a so called “new” farm organization calling itself “Partners in Innovations.” Upon...
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