CSU contributes seed to Iraq to bolster wheat, barley crops

FORT COLLINS – The future of a nation can be found in one small seed.
It was this idea that started the grassroots effort to provide Iraqi farmers with updated wheat and barley seed to replenish what has been depleted by overplanting.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the seed will be used in the Ninevah Province, considered to be the country’s wheat belt.
A statement from the Defense Department says that over the past 10 years this region has not been able to keep up with Iraq’s wheat demand. During the Saddam Hussein regime, farmers were expected…