This paper examines the barley and wheat breeding programmes of the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI), which was the most … successful public plant breeding institute in the UK, until privatization in 1987. The PBI's shares in barley and wheat seed … sales are explained, showing that the success with barley was largely a matter of serendipity, whereas the wheat programme …

ERS sponsored a workshop, Technological and Structural Change in the Transportation Sector: Effects on U.S. Food and … role and importance of transportation in U.S. food and agricultural trade and to discuss the need of an agency research … Institution led with discussions about the role of transportation in the global food system and the importance of integrating …

and led to expanded corn production, which is affecting grain transportation as corn use shifts from exports and feed use ….S. population (and therefore implied ethanol demand) lives along its coastlines. Transportation factors to consider as ethanol … production continues to expand in the Nation’s heartland include: • The capacity of the Nation’s transportation system to move …