Mexico city Quote by William Davis

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to…

— Norman Borlaug

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got…

— Zac Efron

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Where would Monsanto be without the U.S. farm program and world-class research labs?

— Dick Durbin

“This is the magical realism of NAFTA - Mexico, the birthplace of corn, is now importing surplus corn from el Norte - millions of…

— John Vaillant

“Mesoamerica would deserve its place in the human pantheon if its inhabitants had only created maize, in terms of harvest weight the world’s most…

— Charles C. Mann

“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land…

— Michael Pollan

Mexico City is being used as a laboratory to send the message throughout the rest of Mexico that the Left can govern. That here,…

— Denise Dresser

“Likely the milpa cannot be replicated on an industrial scale. But by studying its essential features, researchers may be able to smooth the rough…

— Charles C. Mann

The Department of Agriculture plays an integral role in supporting New Mexico's farms - from small family farms to large agricultural operations.

— Ben Ray Lujan

As a small farmer in Nambe, and now as a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, I understand firsthand how vital agriculture is for…

— Ben Ray Lujan

When in 1963 we started large-scale research and testing with semi-dwarf varieties of wheat obtained from Mexico through Norman Borlaug, the new plant types…

— M. S. Swaminathan