breeder

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Wes Pingree, a breeder who runs SoCalMiniPigs with his wife Sandra, said prospective buyers often underestimate what “mini” means.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

"We are being treated like third-class citizens," said 72-year-old Yiannis Dinas, a sheep breeder from the Greek region of Macedonia.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

So how did a small plant breeder in Somerset end up selling tropical plants all over the world?

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

He said he did not mislead customers because he was in fact a home breeder, and only advertised the out-of-state puppies as Coton de Tulears, “which is what I thought I was purchasing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Mendel, as we shall see, was an instinctual gardener—a breeder of plants, a counter of seeds, an isolator of traits; Darwin was a garden digger—a classifier of plants, an organizer of specimens, a taxonomist.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee