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Prairie Prophet |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE PRAIRIE? |
| Author: Vince Magers |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 3,236 Words, 19,490 Characters |
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In the office of the Land Institute hangs a photograph of Wes Jackson standing at the edge of an experimental crop plot watching several young men work the soil with hoes. He is wearing bib overalls and, as farmers are wont to do, he has his left thumb hooked in the bib. A hat shades his face from the piercing Kansas sun. In any auction barn or small-town café Jackson could easily pass for one of the legions of hard-featured Plains farmers.
Jackson, however, is anything but a typical farmer. This son of the Kansas prairie wants nothing less than to remake American agriculture, to make it less abusive to the land. Jackson's has been a leading voice calling for sustainable agriculture for 15 years now. A plant geneticist, Jackson, along with his colleagues, is engaged in research looki...
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... change will be initiated from outside the universities, outside of government," Jackson remarks in his office, his huge hands clasped behind his head as he intently gazes out the window at some distant point on the Kansas landscape. "It's worrisome to me that our institutions are unable to hear the sound of that drum, but I can tell you it's getting louder and it's getting more insistent." vbcrlf
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