He says farmers in some parts of North Dakota plant wheat that is ready to harvest in only about one hundred days.
VOA: special.2010.02.09
Borlaug worked with wheat genes to shrink the plant while keeping the grain large.
VOA: special.2009.11.10
Farmers now anxiously resowing the parched pampas are expected to plantwheat over as little acreage as was sown in 1903, when pioneers were still expanding the frontier, says Mr Weskamp.
The new approach uses four or five weaker defences, for example reducing the area of the wheatplant that Ug99 destroys, or slowing down the spread of the fungus.
He encouraged farmers to plant five acres of wheat to supply flour to the local hotel, but he and some friends soon realized that the best value-added idea for the wheat was in a bottle of spirits.