However, poor farmers frequently cannot afford to buy new seed each season, so they take their chances and replant the best of their seed from year to year in the belief that a new plant that is not quite as good as its parent is better than no plant at all.
But Gottfried's team ran into a No. 1 seed each time that denied the Wolfpack a chance at the program's first tournament title since 1987 under Jim Valvano.
The ages of entrepreneurs in its latest startup batch, which received tens of thousands of dollars in seed money each, ranged from 18 to 43.
To establish a meadow, it usually takes 10 to 20 pounds of wildflower and grass seed for each acre, says Howard Bright, president of Ion Exchange, a specialty nursery in Harpers Ferry, Iowa.
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Perhaps Brigham Young or Mississippi State, each a No. 8 seed in 2008, will be this year's Villanova.
Specifically, the segment benefited from higher seed volumes in North America and seed price gains in each of its geographic regions.
"A farm is more than how many dollars of seed you have in the ground each year, " he said.
They looked down at the solitary flower bed, at the bright-colored seed packets marking the empty rows, each packet pierced with a stick.
The campaigners, who claim nuclear power stations are dangerous, said they planned to scatter a total of 577 seed balls on the land to symbolise each day since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011.
Li now faces top seed Serena Williams, who has won the title on each of the previous four occasions she has reached the semi-finals.
The seventh seed served out to love in the final game of each set to reach the last four of the tournament for the fourth time as he bids for a first final appearance.
McLemore and Travis Releford scored 11 each for the Jayhawks, who wearily advanced to play No. 8 seed North Carolina and former coach Roy Williams in the South Regional on Sunday.
Fifth seed Tomas Berdych, who has reached the quarterfinals of the Melbourne grand slam in each of the last two years, got his 2013 challenge off to a strong start with a 6-3 7-5 6-3 defeat of American Michael Russell.
Kerber, the second seed, had also lost her two previous meetings to Wozniacki, but staged a recovery in each set to claim victory.
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