Wheat
May 27 2008, AP

Dr. Yue Jin, a kind-faced man in a blue lab coat, is the nation’s bulwark against a devastating new plant disease. He’s the only federal scientist whose main mission is protecting the $17 billion U.S. wheat crop from annihilation.His budget’s being...

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On Monday, October 6th, a live wheat field, approximately one quarter of an acre in size, sprouted at New York City’s South Street Seaport. The Wheat Foods Council’s “Urban Wheat Field Experience,” running October 6th through 8th, brings the...