It’s the middle of the night and Donald Chase is out in the field, guiding his sprayer down a narrow row of peanut plants. The cool Georgia night air has displaced the intense daytime heat typical during the hot summer months. Headlights pierce the darkness as the sprayer works its way through the peanut fields,…
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is a native North American plant, and currently, there are no commercially available genetically modified varieties. In the late 1960s, it became a commercially cultivated and economically important crop. It is a lightweight seed at 28 pounds per bushel. John Sandbakken, Executive Director of the National Sunflower Association, has worked for…
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