His latest album, Sin, Salvation and Saving Seeds, is a fundraiser for Seed Savers, a Decorah, Iowa, farm that raises heirloom seeds for share and trade.

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But once a firm sold a farmer the seeds of an apomictic crop, it would be difficult to stop him from saving seeds and growing them in future years.

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The saving grace for countries with entrepreneurial energy and sufficient startup capital is that periods like this sow the seeds of rebirth.

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If apomictic seeds are cheap enough, farmers may not think it worthwhile to go to the trouble of saving and storing them.

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