First the Seed

First the Seed

Author: Jack Ralph Kloppenburg

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1990-06-29

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780521395588

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This history of the scientific and commercial lines of plant development in the United States traces the transformation of the seed from a public good produced and reproduced by farmers into a commodity controlled by businesses and corporations divorced from the uses of their product.