Accurate plant disease diagnoses and rapid detection and identification of plant pathogens are of utmost importance for controlling plant diseases and mitigating the economic losses they incur. Technological advances have increasingly simplified the tools available for the identification of pathogens to the extent that, in some cases, this can be done directly by growers and producers themselve...

INTRODUCTION Meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba, Limnanthaceae) was domesticated and commercialized in Oregon under a series of circumstances that allowed local grower participation before the first commercial sale of product. Growers had the opportunity to organize and to transfer skills, knowledge, and germplasm (Fletcher 2002) from Oregon State University (OSU) to their farms. They also had the opp...

Methods: Forty–eight barrows were selected at 11 weeks of age from a commercial nursery and randomly assigned either to the environments of the adjoining commercial grower and finisher buildings (n=24) (COMM group) or an unrestricting research environment (n=24) (UNRES group). Pigs were weighed at biweekly intervals from placement at 30 kg (65 lb) liveweight until slaughter. Backfat thickness a...

Abstract: The processed potato industry is highly vertically coordina ted though the use of production contracts between growers and processors. Contracts in this industry are primarily used to combat market thinness and potato quality requirements. This study uses a two period principle-agent model to describe the incentives inherit in processing potato production contracts. Actual processor p...

Physical castration is a common management practice on commercial swine farms in the United States to reduce the incidence of boar taint and aggressive behavior. One alternative to physical castration (PC) is to immunologically castrate (IC) male pigs by blocking the gonadotropin-releasing factor (GnRF), thereby reducing levels of LH, FSH, testosterone, and androstenone. The objectives of this ...

Nematode severity in Arkansas in 1999, although not as great as in 1998, proved to be increasing throughout the state. Root-knot nematode (RKN), Meloidogyne incognita, and reniform nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformis, were diagnosed in many grower fields for the first time in 1999. Cotton yields were reduced through much of the state due to environmental stress and nematodes made a bad situation...

Issue Established in 1995, the Lodi Winegrape Comission’s (LWC) Sustainable Winegrowing Program (SWP) promotes grower adoption of best management practices via informational meetings, workshops, vineyard demonstrations and research, the Lodi Winegrowers’ Workbook for sustainability self-assessment, and the Lodi Rules for Sustainable Winegrowing third-party certification program. Understanding g...

The effects of purified non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) fractions (soluble, guar gum (SOL) and insoluble, cellulose (INSOL)) NSP fractions on digesta passage rate, retention time and voluntary feed intake was studied in grower pigs. Compared to control, adding SOL+INSOL increased digesta viscosity, slowed digesta flow rate and increased retention time in the total tract. Voluntary feed intake a...

Penelitian bertujuan mengevaluasi konsumsi dan potensi ekonomis biji asam sebagai pakan babi lokalgrower telah dilaksanakan di Laboratorium Produksi Ternak Politani Negeri Kupang. menggunakan20 jantan lokal grower. menggunakan rancangan acak kelompok dengan dua perlakuan (R0=pakan mengandung tanpa fermentasi, R1= fermentasi) sepuluhulangan. Variabel penelitian adalah ransum, income over feed co...