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Plant breeder keeps eye on future demands
Patience and predictive ability are helpful traits for any plant breeder says Justine Ferguson.
To navigate the 10-plus year timeframe to breed a new cultivar and get it to the point of release to the market takes patience, she says. Predicting the traits needed by a new cultivar in 10 or more years also means good plant breeders always have one eye on the future.
PODCASTS
S2 Ep1: Rob Auld, Auld Farm Distillery
A seed-to-sip philosophy is the approach at Auld Farm Distillery, where the Auld family harvest the grain from their Southland farm and take a fresh new approach to bottling the essence of their land, their history and their story.
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