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Alf Hannaford: The Grader Man
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Alf Hannaford was an agricultural pioneer.

He devoted much time and energy to tenaciously improving cereal crops through seed grading, and the protection of crops by controlling cereal diseases and infestations through seed treatment.

Alf’s inventions and machinery developments, which simplified those processes, are a memorial to his life’s work.

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