''I fell in love with it as a crop,'' he says.
As a crop specialist, Silverstein is a hybrid of farmer, scientist, and officer worker.
Truffle orchards could help replace tobacco as a crop and preserve farmland.
It is known as a crop mimic because it has evolved to look just like rice.
Though often associated with Hawaii, it is not native there, but was introduced as a crop.
Sorghum is a major staple food in Africa on account of its hardiness as a crop.
In general, the group views hatchery fish as a crop released by the state for public recreation.
"For all these reasons, it is almost never grown or recommended as a crop on organic farms.
But the Europeans are eager to buy American soybeans, which, as a crop, has a higher percentage of modified seed.
But the commercial-scale cultivation of jatropha, which has not previously been grown as a crop, raises several significant challenges.
"You don't associate a poppy-seed bagel with opium". Hemp thrived as a crop before the 1937 ban.
