Estimated Breeding Values with Michelle Canfield

10/28/20 • 23 min

This is part two of our live recorded episodes from the AAAS where examine the impact of emerging technologies on the way we produce food and how we can leverage that technology to build a better and more resilient food system. Michelle Canfield is a farmer and an electrical engineer in the medical device industry by day and in her free time does education and outreach around quantitative genetics for seedstock selection.SHOW NOTES:http://www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2020/10/21/estimated-breeding-values-with-michelle-canfieldLETS CONNECT:twitter.com/femalefarmerswww.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/www.femalefarmerproject.org

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