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USDA's Jerry Miller retires
Jerry F. Miller, research geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Northern Crop Science Laboratory in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, retired on January 3, 2007, after working nearly 31 years with the USDA-ARS in the field of plant breeding and genetics.
Miller was raised on a wheat farm near Sidney, Nebraska, USA. He received his BS and MS degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his PhD from North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, for his work on hybrid wheat. He worked for two years with Funk Brothers Seed Co. in Bloomington, Illinois, USA, before returning to NDSU to work on hybrid wheat seed ...