Carver vs Borlaug: should the farmer nurse the soil or feed the millions?
CARVER vs NORMAN BORLAUG go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.
I taught tired Southern farmers to rotate peanuts and restore the earth that cotton had bled dry - feed the land first, and it will feed the man.
George, patience is a luxury the starving cannot afford; I bred dwarf wheat that doubled harvests and kept a billion people alive.
And what of the land beneath that wheat, Norman? Your fertilizers and machines win the season but exhaust the century.
Better an exhausted acre than an empty grave - I chose the living millions over the perfect furrow, and I would choose them again.
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