Frank is a farmer who is primarily motivated to maximize yield and profit. What type of agriculture does he likely practice? Diversified Sustainable intensification Conventional Agroecological Celeste purchases maize seed one year to see if she can increase her yield. The crop looks good and so she decides to save a portion of the seed to plant the next year. The next year she plants the saved seed and is disappointed in the outcome. The crop isn’t uniform and doesn’t yield well. What type of seed was the maize that Celeste saved? Open-pollinated Hybrid Heirloom Bt A plant breeder at a university has developed a new variety of wheat through a breeding process that has taken place exclusively on university agricultural experiment land, where the soil quality is excellent and irrigation is readily available. In these conditions, this new wheat variety has experienced yield increases of up to 50%. The plant breeder is excited to start releasing this wheat variety out to farmers but talks to a social scientist who raises some concerns about distributing the wheat variety out into the public. What did the social scientist most likely tell the plant breeder? Wheat isn’t an important enough crop to warrant its dissemination Demonstrating success under ideal conditions doesn’t mean that the crop will perform well under the diverse and varied conditions of farmers’ fields Yield is not a trait that should receive attention given the intensity of climate change events Conventional plant breeding is no longer a viable strategy to develop new crop varieties
Frank is a farmer who is primarily motivated to maximize yield and profit. What type of agriculture does he likely practice?
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Diversified |
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Sustainable intensification |
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Conventional |
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Agroecological |
Celeste purchases maize seed one year to see if she can increase her yield. The crop looks good and so she decides to save a portion of the seed to plant the next year. The next year she plants the saved seed and is disappointed in the outcome. The crop isn’t uniform and doesn’t yield well. What type of seed was the maize that Celeste saved?
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Open-pollinated |
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Hybrid |
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Heirloom |
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Bt |
A plant breeder at a university has developed a new variety of wheat through a breeding process that has taken place exclusively on university agricultural experiment land, where the soil quality is excellent and irrigation is readily available. In these conditions, this new wheat variety has experienced yield increases of up to 50%. The plant breeder is excited to start releasing this wheat variety out to farmers but talks to a social scientist who raises some concerns about distributing the wheat variety out into the public. What did the social scientist most likely tell the plant breeder?
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Wheat isn’t an important enough crop to warrant its dissemination |
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Demonstrating success under ideal conditions doesn’t mean that the crop will perform well under the diverse and varied conditions of farmers’ fields |
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Yield is not a trait that should receive attention given the intensity of climate change events |
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Conventional plant breeding is no longer a viable strategy to develop new crop varieties |
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