ListenExperts foresee negative ripple effects in termination of USDA scientists in St. Paul lab
Matthew Moscou is a plant pathologist who worked at the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul for about two and a half years. Part of Moscou’s job was to help growers breed wheat, barley and oats that are more disease resistant.
“We’re really meeting key goals of the stakeholders,” Moscou said. “We have a national remit in what we do, and we get extremely positive feedback from plant breeders for breeding wheat in Texas and North Dakota … in Washington.”…