Crop Trust, which works to preserve crop bio-diversity, needs to more than double its $300 million endowment fund to be able to support seed banks across the world, Executive Director Stefan Schmitz said.
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Crop Trust seeks more funding to protect global seed diversity
Climate change, surge of conflict makes crop seed preservation more urgent, organization says
Arctic doomsday vault gets record batch of crop seeds
Twenty-three seed banks took part, nine of them for the first time
A frozen Arctic vault built to preserve global agricultural crops from extinction received seeds on Tuesday from the largest number of new contributors yet, a custodian of the remote facility said.
China building world’s largest seed bank
Larger facility a bid to boost food security
Beijing | Reuters — China will complete a new national crop germplasm bank this year, the agriculture minister said Wednesday, to boost the country’s capacity to develop new crop varieties and enhance food security. The bank has a designed capacity of 1.5 million copies, almost four times the existing one, and will be the world’s
Doomsday Arctic seed vault to receive two deposits in 2016
The vault built to protect the world's seed supplied is built into the side of a Norwegian mountain
Two new consignments of crop seeds will be deposited this year in the “doomsday vault” built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global supplies. The vault — which opened on the Svalbard archipelago between Norway and the North Pole in 2008 — is designed to protect crop seeds such as beans, rice and wheat against
Tank mixing weed killers helps delay herbicide-resistant weeds
But don’t forget to rotate crops, including fall seeded and perennials, advises AAFC’s Hugh Beckie
Tank mixing two herbicides with different modes of action targeting the same weed is a good way to delay the development of herbicide-resistent weeds, a study by weed scientists at the University of Illinois and United States Department of Agriculture concludes. “We don’t say that mixing is the end-all solution,” study co-author Pat Tranel of
Ancient Seeds In Mexico Fight Warming Effects
More than 500 years after Spanish priests brought wheat seeds to Mexico to make wafers for the Catholic Mass, those seeds may bring a new kind of salvation to farmers hit by global warming. Scientists working in the farming hills outside Mexico City found the ancient wheat varieties have particular drought-and heat-resistant traits, such as
Noxious Weed Or Crop Of The Future? – for Jul. 29, 2010
If he wasn’t so busy trying to help farmers snuff it out, University of Arkansas weed scientist Ken Smith says he would be studying Palmer amaranth out of pure interest. Some of the very things that make amaranth – known as pigweed – such a formidable weed also flag its potential as a food crop.
Cover Crops Could Fill Void
“We should be home, getting to work!” – Scott Day, Mafri With so many unseeded acres on the Prairies, the problem has even attracted the attention of politicians, who have responded with a promise of cheques in the mail. But, ultimately, what to do about it is in the hands of the farmers who got
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