Check out – Auburn University on the Web at http://www.poultryhouse.com Infectious disease is one of a number of factors that can affect performance in broiler flocks. Modern industry practices such as stringent hatchery sanitation programs, widespread vaccinations, use of feed additives and bio-security precautions have evolved to provide in most cases an effective shield against serious losse...

In greenhouse tomato crops, several manual operations are performed each week to keep the plants in optimal growth conditions. But growers are trying to reduce labour costs by spacing out the manual operations. An experimental study was conducted on one particular operation, axillary bud deshooting. The aim is to determine the effect of the deshooting frequency on vegetative growth and fruit yi...

Production of herbaceous perennials has been one of the most rapidly growing areas of floriculture for the last 8 to 10 years. However, greenhouse and nursery production of herbaceous perennials requires a significant effort to control the growth of some of these very vigorous plants. Until very recently the primary methods of control were scheduling and pruning. If a grower missed the target d...

This research was done aimed to investigation the effective factors on production skills of tobacco growers in Mazandaran province. This is an applied study based on descriptive-correlation method. Statistical population of this research consisted of 1500 tobacco growers  of Mazandaran province, and 306 people were selected based on Morgan table. Content validity of the questionnaire was determ...

The American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) contains rich antioxidants and has significant health benefits in fighting a variety of human diseases. In the past ten years, cranberry growers have reported yellow vine syndrome, which is associated with reduced photosynthetic performance, in the cranberry bogs. It has been found that the yellow vine syndrome of cranberry is associated with ...

BACKGROUND Temperate fruit and nut trees require adequate winter chill to produce economically viable yields. Global warming has the potential to reduce available winter chill and greatly impact crop yields. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We estimated winter chill for two past (1975 and 2000) and 18 future scenarios (mid and end 21st century; 3 Global Climate Models [GCMs]; 3 greenhouse gas e...

BACKGROUND About 25% of greenhouse flower and/or ornamental plant growers sensitised to workplace flowers or moulds have occupational asthma, a disease that is suffered by 8% of the growers who cultivate these crops. AIM To document a case of occupational asthma due to IgE mediated allergy to the flower Molucella laevis. METHODS and RESULTS There was a history of work related seasonal ast...