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Dr. Ivan Miller

I studied agronomy and plant breeding at the University of Florida and at Iowa State University.

After completing my PhD, I joined Dessert Seed Co. as an onion breeder and worked with that program through various company changes until leaving in 1996.

I then became Assistant Director of the University of California Desert Research and Extension Center in 1997.

In 1999 I started a small onion breeding program under the company name Desert Gold Seed Company. While pursuing this onion breeding program, I also worked as an instructor at the Imperial Valley College, teaching agricultural Science, math and statistics.

In July 2004 I joined United Genetics as short and intermediate day onion breeder and manager of the Brawley research station. The onion breeding program I had developed at Desert Gold Seed Company has been incoporated into United Genetics' onion program.