The Best Of Both Worlds
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June 16, 2011
Jean Bruno Beaufume (center) shows a wheat variety from the Limagroup test plot on Middle Waitsburg Road to Group Limagrain wheat farmers/shareholders on tour of the Pacific Northwest. To the far right is former Oregon State University wheat breeder Dr. Jim Peterson.
WAI T SBURG - Jean Bruno Beaufume' s mission is simple: combine the best characteristics of French and British wheat seeds with those of the Pacific Northwest and come up with superior varieties that farmers in this region will buy.
The French-born breeder who will take up his new station in Waitsburg in late July said the mission here for the giant French cooperative Group Limagrain is much more challenging than it sounds.
But it's a challenge he is looking forward to.
"I'm very excited to have this opportunity," Beaufume said, indicating that the region has lots of growers who are interes...
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