"Ag connect expo 2011 will showcase science based agriculture ......... Dr. Fred Below gets excited about what he calls 'the perfect crop': corn. His enthusiasm for corn, and the power of his presentation, helps you see how producers could ultimately have eye-popping yields of 300 bushels an acre, Below predicts.
'If a scientist had to start from scratch to create a food-producing plant with the most flexibility and the highest responsiveness to management, the results would be corn. It’s the highest yielding crop in the world,' he says.
Dr. Below, who is Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will bring his compelling corn production insights to AG CONNECT Expo, at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in January next year. ............... Below said he plans to have early data from the 2010 harvest when he shares with attendees the 'Seven Wonders of the Corn Yield World' for optimizing crop management and yield at AG CONNECT Expo 2011.
'Science_based agriculture will show the way to feed the earth’s increasing population, and corn will be a keystone to that effort. We need to double food production in 20 years but we can’t do it without biotech,' Below said. 'And corn is the crop that is most amenable to modern scientific biotech management.' "
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/09/ag-connect-expo-2011-will-showcase-science-based-agriculture/
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