Seed World Podcast

National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) Borlaug Scholar Caio Canella talks with Marc Zienkiewicz about soybean breeding and how pumping iron helps him in his efforts to make food more nutritious. Interview conducted at the 2019 meeting of the NAPB in Pine Mountain, Georgia. Canella is a Master’s student at the University of Missouri under […]

2019 National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) Borlaug Scholar Sarah Marsh talks to Seed World’s Marc Zienkiewicz about the world’s most-consumed alcoholic beverage that you’ve probably never heard of. She also offers some insight into why she plays one of the roughest sports around — rugby. Marsh is a senior plant and environmental soil science […]

National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) 2019 Borlaug Scholar Zaki Afshar talks to Seed World’s Marc Zienkiewicz about his family’s farm in Afghanistan and how he’s working to make farming easier for people there and beyond. Interview conducted at the 2019 NAPB annual meeting in Pine Mountain, Georgia. Afshar is a Graduate Research Assistant and […]

Marc Zienkiewicz chats with NAPB Borlaug Scholar Stephanie Sjoberg about her research on winter wheat and how Charles Darwin’s famous finches inspired her to breed plants. Interview conducted at the National Association of Plant Breeders 2019 meeting in Pine Mountain, Georgia, this week. Sjoberg is a PhD candidate in Dr. Arron Carter’s winter wheat breeding […]

Seed World sits down with Borlaug Scholar Tannis Anderson at the 2019 meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders in Pine Mountain, Georgia, to talk about her work studying soybeans, using seed to make ceramics, and how a phobia of needles helped her become a plant breeder. Anderson is an undergraduate student attending the […]

Seed World sits down with Borlaug Scholar Adrienne Blakey at the 2019 meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders in Pine Mountain, Georgia, to talk about her work studying wheat, gluten, and a really cool device called the Glutomatic that she uses to literally squish protein. Blakey is a senior studying plant and soil […]

At the 9th annual meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders that began today in Pine Mountain, Georgia, Seed World’s Marc Zienkiewicz sat down with Borlaug Scholar Daniel Sweeney to talk about his love of barley breeding, his affinity for craft beer and how his research could one day make barley farmers’ lives easier. […]

At the 9th annual meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders that began today in Pine Mountain, Georgia, Seed World’s Marc Zienkiewicz sat down with Borlaug Scholar Jessica Chitwood-Brown to talk about her love of tomato breeding (including using seed that was harvested before she was born), how anyone can understand science, and why […]

Use field-level data to find farmers who need seed treatment products. During this webinar, participants will learn to: Identify your company’s ideal customer base through fact-based information such as crop type, farm size, Gross Farm Income and more. Analyze the market and compare your company’s track record to your segment of the market to identify […]

Biostimulants are getting a lot of attention in the marketplace.  Learn how biostimulants can be used as a seed treatment and at critical stages of crop growth in combination with nutritional products to optimize plant growth, manage abiotic stress and realize the seed’s full genetic potential. Participants will learn: • How to use biostimulant seed treatments […]