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A 150-year agricultural experiment begins in Illinois, and the questions it asks are bigger than corn yields
The University of Illinois is planting plots meant to outlast their funders. What 150 years of crop data could settle, and what it cannot.
This publication framed the Alma Mater Plots as an institutional and infrastructural story first, and an agronomic one second; the wire coverage has tended to lead on the 150-year number without engaging the question of how such an experiment actually survives its funders.
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