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A farmer handling saved seed, illustrating the long practice of selecting seed for future planting

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Why Did Farmers Save and Select Seeds?

Farmers altered crops for millennia by choosing which seeds to plant again. Tradivior will examine how selection created landraces, preserved adaptation and sometimes sacrificed uniformity or yield.