{"id":3414,"date":"2023-04-12T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T06:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graminor.no\/hveteforedler-i-30-ar-hils-pa-jon-arne\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T09:52:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:52:20","slug":"hveteforedler-i-30-ar-hils-pa-jon-arne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graminor.no\/hveteforedler-i-30-ar-hils-pa-jon-arne\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Wheat breeder for 30 years – Meet Jon Arne!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
We want to showcase the people who together make up Graminor – our great employees! Next up is wheat breeder Jon Arne Diseth, who has worked in wheat breeding for 30 years this year. We’ve asked him some questions to give an insight into his workday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How long have you worked at Graminor? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve had roughly the same job that I have now since February 1993. That’s long before Graminor. Back then, cereal breeding was organized as a research project and funded by the State Cereal Department, and wheat breeding took place at \u00c5s, at what was then called Norges Landbruksh\u00f8gskole (NLH). In 2001, wheat breeding was moved from \u00c5s to Bj\u00f8rke. In the meantime, Norwegian Cereal Breeding Ltd. had been formed. It was the precursor to Graminor, but only involved cereal breeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had the opportunity to get into wheat breeding when I finished my regular studies at NLH. During Borlaug’s heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, a collaboration was started between NLH and CIMMYT, and then it so happened that the year I finished at NLH, someone figured out that this collaboration should be developed by sending a Norwegian student to the research center in Mexico. It was organized as a PhD program where I spent two years doing research at CIMMYT, taking necessary courses and writing the thesis at NLH. After this, I was offered to come back to CIMMYT as a postdoc. After I had been there for two more years, the then Norwegian wheat breeder had quit, and I was encouraged to apply. Since then, I have been working in wheat breeding in Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n