Canadian food mogul Wallace McCain was the son of a potato seed exporter in New Brunswick, part of a long line of Irish farmers.

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Gonzaga is a number one seed because for over a decade they have become part of the new elite.

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It explains a large part of the rapid diffusion of hybrid corn seed among Iowa farmers from 1928 to 1941.

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