Hugh Pye (1860 to 1942) was an Australian agricultural educator and wheat breeder. Born at Ascot near Bendigo and schooled in Geelong, he taught science at St Kilda Grammar School before joining Dookie Agricultural College in 1887. After writing to William Farrer in 1889 he moved from pasture improvement to wheat breeding, became principal of Dookie in 1894, and in 1916 resigned after a dispute over agricultural education governance to serve as Victoria's government cerealist. He bred more than 100 cultivars for drought tolerance and milling quality, among them Improved Steinwedel, Warden, College Purple, Minister and Baldmin. Currawa, released in 1912, became the second most widely grown wheat in Australia in the 1920s, and by his death his varieties made up 80 percent of those grown in Victoria.
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was an Australian agricultural educator and pioneering wheat breeder
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was an Australian agricultural educator and pioneering wheat breeder
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was an Australian agricultural educator and pioneering wheat breeder
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he turned to wheat breeding after corresponding with William Farrer in 1889
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he developed more than 100 wheat cultivars aimed at improving drought tolerance and milling quality
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