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Bill Tracy: Breeding Sweet Corn
Heartland Stories Radio
English - November 29, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBHealth & Fitness Kids & Family farming sustainableagriculture food goodfoodmovement health kids pesticides publichealth socialjustice sustainability Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Bill Tracy is a Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Chair of the Masters program in Agroecology as well as Clif Bar and Organic Valley Endowed Chair in Plant Breeding for Organic Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tune in to learn more about:
- Sweet corn breeding;
- Breeding for climate;
- Why diversity of crops and perennials are important;
- The experiments with perennializing of sweet corn;
- Nixtamalized corn.
To learn more about Professor Bill Tracy go to https://agronomy.wisc.edu/bill-tracy/.