Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. The Global Seed Vault in Norway, intended as the ultimate failsafe for biodiversity of crops, is now threatened by rapid warming in Longyearbyen, the town on the island of Svalbard that is the worldвЂ™s northernmost community with 1,000 or more residents. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. SvalbardвЂ™s вЂDoomsdayвЂ™ Seed Vault in Trouble Due to Rapid Arctic Warming. Inside lives the last hope should the unthinkable occur: a global. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his ten years in the role. In a remote mountainside on the Norwegian tundra sits the 'doomsday vault,' a backup against disaster - manmade or otherwise. Gregor Heard is Fairfax Ag Media's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in 2008 as a 'backstop' for seed banks around the world, whose own archives of their agricultural heritage might be threatened by disaster.

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