The Seed Makers Who Don't Pray for Rain

摘要

Lance Russell's neighbors aren't used to seeing cornfields. The area near Hays, Kan., where Russell has long tilled 2,500 acres of sorghum, wheat, and sunflowers, has always been too dry and hot for corn. The neighbors will be in for a surprise this summer as Russell plants 230 acres of drought-tolerant corn that DuPont is testing. An experimental sorghum plot Russell planted in 2009 improved yields "by a landslide," he says.