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An overview of various legumes and root crops, including roundup ready wheat, new world beans, peanuts, forage legumes, baby carrots, and the potato. Topics cover their origins, uses, and significance in agriculture and human consumption. Discussions include the potential impact of genetically modified crops on international trade and the historical significance of potatoes.
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The Latest Battlefield in the “Biotech Wars”:
Roundup Ready Crops: corn, soybeans, cotton
None of these have major use in human consumption
Roundup Ready Wheat: produced and marketed by Monsanto
Worry: if any farmers grown GM Wheat, some importers (Japan) will ban all wheat from U.S. all farmers will lose this market
Phaseolus vulgaris – source of many types
Another independent domesticate in Mexico and South America
Phaseolus vulgaris – source of many types
Another independent domesticate in Mexico and South America
Arachis hypogaea – peanut, ground nut, goober central South America
Alfalfa – Medicago sativa - king of forage crops – associated with horse husbandry
Clovers – Trifolium
Lespedeza
Sweet Clovers - Melilotus
Frederick the Great encouraging peasants to grow more potatoes
Vincent van Gogh painting: “The potato eaters” (Belgium)
Ireland – potato became staple crop in 1800s
functionally monoculture – political & cultural considerations
1840s – potato blight hit: population 8 million 6 million