Celebrating National Agriculture Day: Feeding our children and grandchildren

Editor’s note: Kurt Boudonck is the Greenhouse Group Leader for the Trait Research unit of Bayer in RTP.  His responsibilities include crop plant experiments, management of people and facilities, and trait education. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Think about the last time you ate a sweet potato: Maybe you baked one last night for a quick dinner after a long day at work. Maybe you munched on perfectly crisp sweet potato fries alongside a burger and craft beer at your favorite downtown hot spot on Saturday night. Or, maybe you had a heaping serving of your mom’s famous, marshmallow-topped sweet potato casserole at...

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