Trained as a plant pathologist, Borlaug joined the Rockefeller Institute–funded Cooperative Wheat Research and Production Program in Mexico (a precursor to CIMMYT, the International Maize and Wheat ...

South of Cresco, Iowa, you will find a small farmstead with quite a story. “By the time they came to live in this house, which was 1922, Norm was about eight years old or so and they had just ...

People are pretty good problem solvers and Norman Borlaug — along with others — created what’s known as the Green Revolution. Borlaug broke the rules for growing wheat as part of experiments ...

This paper examines the role played by Norman Borlaug in promoting the notion of Green Revolution ... ‘public agronomist’, gained through his successful breeding of semi-dwarf wheat varieties, to ...

In 1970 Norman E ... In 1944, Dr. Borlaug participated in the Rockefeller Foundation's pioneering technical assistance program in Mexico, where he was a research scientist in charge of wheat ...

By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops ...

Julie Borlaug, granddaughter of Norman Borlaug, is president of the ... my grandfather worked tirelessly to bring new wheat and rice varieties to regions where traditional crops failed.

Just a few years earlier, an Iowan had brought his miracle wheat from Mexico to confront ... and saved millions from ...