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  2. List of seed packet companies - Wikipedia

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    Gurney's Seed and Nursery Company, established in 1866; Harris Seeds, established in 1879 [5] [6] [7] Hudson Valley Seed Company, established in 2009 [8] [9] J.W. Jung Seed Company, established in 1907; McKenzie Seeds, established in 1896; Park Seed Company, established in 1868; Richters Herbs, established in 1970; R. H. Shumway, established in ...

  3. Coker Experimental Farms - Wikipedia

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    Coker Experimental Farms, also known as Coker Pedigreed Seed Company, is a National Historic Landmark agricultural site at 1257 South Fourth Street in Hartsville, South Carolina, USA. The property, which is now owned by a museum, was the location where David R. Coker conducted crucial breeding experiments to enhance the strains of cotton and ...

  4. Cultivation of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    The cultivation of tobacco usually takes place annually. The tobacco is germinated in cold frames or hotbeds and then transplanted to the field until it matures. It is grown in warm climates with rich, well-drained soil. About 4.2 million hectares of tobacco were under cultivation worldwide in 2000, yielding over seven million tonnes of tobacco ...

  5. DeKalb Genetics Corporation - Wikipedia

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    As a result, DeKalb was the leader in U.S. hybrid seed corn sales from the mid-1930s until the mid-1970s (Crabb 1948. Roberts 1999). [2] In 1982 DeKalb formed a joint venture with Pfizer, called DeKalb-Pfizer Genetics, and in 1985 the name was changed to DeKalb Corporation. The seed business was spun off as DeKalb Genetics Corporation in 1988. [4]

  6. Burley (tobacco) - Wikipedia

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    Field of burley tobacco, drying and curing barn in the background, farm of Russell Spears, Lexington, Kentucky, 1940 Harvesting burley tobacco, 1940 Fields at the George Barkley Farm near Augusta, Kentucky, where Webb and Fore obtained the first white burley seed. The origin of white burley tobacco was credited to George Webb and Joseph Fore in ...

  7. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke (2002) online; Porter, Patrick P. “Origins of the American Tobacco Company” The Business History Review, Vol.43, No. 1.(1969) Prince Jr., Eldred E. Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000. Robert, Joseph Clarke.

  8. Asgrow - Wikipedia

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    In 1994, Mexico-based company, Empresas La Moderna SA purchased Asgrow for $300 million. At the time, Asgrow was the fifth-largest seed company with $270 million in sales. [2] [3] Monsanto purchased Asgrow from Empresas in 1996 for $240 million dollars. [4] In 1997, the company moved its headquarters to the Des Moines area from Kalamazoo ...

  9. Types of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    White burley, similar to burley tobacco, is the main component in chewing tobacco, American blend pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. In 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted red burley seeds he had purchased and found that a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look.

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