NEW HARTFORD — The USDA proposes moving a large seed bank for corn from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to the central Iowa city of Ames.
There’s concern the move would endanger the climate-controlled 100,000 samples of corn, some of them a century old, in addition to being redundant and very expensive.
Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says he’s not worried about the proposal.…