[gore3000]

the US during this time increased crop production, much due to the use of evolutionary theory to improve seeds.

You evolutionists are like the Clintonites, everything good was due to Clinton, everything good was due to evoltion. What a joke. Men had been breeding plants long before Darwin was born, thousands of years before. The failures of Russian agriculture were due to murder and socialism, the success of American agriculture had nothing to do with evolution.

[Doctor Stochastic]

You really do need to read some history. Zirkle's book The Death of Science is one place to start. There are many others covering Lysenko's anti-Darwin campaign.