WASHINGTON – Far from the fields and laboratories where Norman Borlaug worked much of his life, hundreds gathered in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to unveil a statue honoring the plant geneticist ...

The United States of America has a long list of very famous people. To name a few, you would never forget George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt. Go to Europe and they might remind ...

Far from the fields and laboratories where Norman Borlaug worked much of his life, hundreds gathered in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to unveil a statue honoring the plant geneticist credited with ...

The wheat plants behind Borlaug are his famous "miracle wheat." It has more grain yield per plant, but is shorter — thanks to the Japanese dwarf wheat Norin 10 — so that it won't topple in the ...

The Wall Street Journal writes that Norman Borlaug helped to drastically increase the food supply through agricultural innovation. He also warned that environmental extremists who opposed ...

Back in the mid-20th century, "green" and "hybrid" referred to agriculture, not automobiles, and an American agronomist named Norman Borlaug was at the forefront of the field. News of the 95-year ...

It was 56 acres,” says Tom Spindler, with the Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation. Spindler is speaking of young Norman Borlaug. Next to the home you will find the school Norm attended as a boy.

Norman Borlaug, who was born on a farm in Iowa 110 years ago this week, is reckoned to have saved more lives than any man in human history — certainly hundreds of millions, perhaps even a billion.

DALLAS -- Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug rose from his childhood on an Iowa farm to develop a type of wheat that helped feed the world, fostering a movement that is credited ...