Wheat breeding should not only aim for high yield but also disease and stress resistance.
I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself.