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In my
Research Institute days I once entertained a visitor
(urban media type, skinny mocha latte - you get the
idea) who came out with the amazing statement: I
don't believe in agriculture. Goodness knows
where she thought her woolly jumper and breakfast muesli
came from. Well, I do believe in agriculture. I'm old enough to remember post-WW2 food rationing and have no desire to go back there, thank you very much. Even at their most academic and impractical, I've always thought of my research interests in relation to the real world of food, feed and the countryside. |
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< Nearly all my experimental work has been either on
food crops (cereals, legumes) or on forages. On
the Crops page
I discuss how I think it fits in with the needs of a
hungry world. |
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< The animal that eats plants is an object of wonder.
Click the Animals
button to read about some of the extraordinary things I've learned
about how plants and herbivores react to each other. |
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< In
Biorenewables I describe how it's a small step from breeding and
growing crops for animal consumption to designing plants
as sources of petrochemical substitutes. |
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< Agriculture is the nut in the urban-rural cracker.
I've developed a possibly unhealthy obsession with what
happens inside and outside the modern city-state.
Read about it by following the
...and cities link. |