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Researcher dedicates career to corn

Kerry Hoffschneider
Feb 21, 2019
Feb 21, 2019 Updated Feb 10, 2021

Stan Jensen York Nebraska — The consummate learner and researcher, Stan Jensen at his home in York with a presentation he gave in Budapest about the crop he loves — corn.

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YORK, Neb. — Stan Jensen knows everything there is to know about corn.

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We have learned that the corn genome is much more malleable than we thought just a few years ago. The evolution of the corn plant has been going on for 10,000 years and will continue to develop.”
- Stan Jensen, Nebraska researcher, on the future of corn in the ag industry.

Stan Jensen