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Sunday, March 21, 2010

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Terry and Jeff Miller use an assortment of custom-made equipment such as this soil dissipation probe on their research farm near Rupert, Idaho.

Family research team finds niche

RUPERT, Idaho -- When Terry Miller was a young professor at Ohio State University, his father developed health problems and asked if he would consider coming back to work on the family farm. Miller resigned his post in plant pathology in 1973 and moved back home to Idaho, even though it m ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM

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