In 1970 Norman E. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ... It was on the research stations and farmers' fields of Mexico that Dr. Borlaug developed successive generations of wheat varieties ...

South of Cresco, Iowa, you will find a small farmstead with quite a story. “By the time they came to live in this house, which was 1922, Norm was about eight years old or so and they had just ...

People are pretty good problem solvers and Norman Borlaug — along with others ... wheat as part of experiments he conducted in Mexico. Breeding high-yield, disease-resistant varieties ...

12 marks anniversary of Nobel laureate, Iowa native Norman Borlaug's death While he died ... to the University of Minnesota, ...

An American agricultural scientist from Iowa, Norman Borlaug bred climate agnostic wheat strains that resisted disease. He was dubbed the “Father of the Green Revolution” and in 1970 was ...