“Global canola production is shifting into new areas…I see the biggest growth in both production area and yield coming from central and Eastern Europe...”

– Garth Hodges of Bayer cropScience

“the forecast is for milk price to improve through the fall and winter, so it’s quite possible we’ll see a resurgence in demand for forage seed come spring.

– Don Wertman of Seedway

Hear more views from Hodges and Wertman on issues ranging from canola production to the forage industry at Seed World.com.

One Seed at a Time

the varieties of wheat, corn, and rice we grow today may not thrive in a future threatened by climate change. that was the focus of a speech by cary Fowler, Director of the Global crop Diversity trust, at this year’s tEDGlobal conference, an invitation-only event where the world’s leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. In his presentation, Fowler spoke passionately about the importance of protecting crop diversity. “By 2030 in Africa, the corn varieties in the field now will have a 30% decrease in production because of climate change. A 30% decrease in production in the context of an increasing population – that’s a food crisis. It’s global in nature and we will watch children starve to death on t.V.” www.ted.com

Ned the Nematode on Twitter

Syngenta Seed care has been promoting education about corn nematodes with a 70-foot “traveling nematode” that has been journeying throughout the Midwestern United States to bring attention to a growing concern for corn growers in the Midwest. Now you can follow Ned and all of his adventures across the corn Belt on twitter at twitter.com/nedthenematode.