A consumer study was conducted to determine palatability ratings of beef tenderloin steaks from USDA Choice, USDA Select, and USDA Select with marbling scores from Slight 50 to 100 (USDA High Select) cooked to various degrees of doneness. Steaks were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 degree of doneness categories: very-rare, medium-rare, or well-done. Consumers (N = 315) were screened for preference ...

This study compared the susceptibility of three blue catfish strains (D&B, USDA 101 and USDA 102) to the parasite Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ich). In Trial I, a cohabitation study (all strains stocked communally) was conducted and fish were exposed to theronts at 0, 200, 1000, 5000 or 25 000 theronts fish(-1), respectively. All fish died when exposed to theronts at 5000 or 25 000 theronts fi...

R. G. Bhat, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis 95616; P. M. Colowit and T. H. Tai, United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Crops Pathology and Genetics Research Unit (CPGRU), Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis 95616; M. K. Aradhya, USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository, University of Califor...

In 2010, Colorado growers harvested 59,200 acres of potatoes with production valued at $293 million (USDA-NASS, 2011b). Additionally, Colorado was ranked 4 nationally in summer potato yields, 5 in fall yields, and had an estimated average of 390 cwt. per acre (USDA-NASS, 2011a). In the San Luis Valley of Southwestern Colorado alone, where the bulk of the state’s potatoes have historically been ...

We investigate forward-looking commodity price volatility expectations (proxied by option-implied volatilities or IVols) around scheduled US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports. show that corn and soybean IVols are significantly lower for several trading days after a report. The IVol response to release depends on agricultural market experts' disagreement sentiment before the USDA report, ...

Abstract Organized lymphoid tissues are important sites of immune induction where B cells activate and differentiate. High-resolution transcriptomic technology has revolutionized current understandings cell activation differentiation in organized such as lymph nodes but not been used to dissect Peyer’s patches, intestinal induction. We utilized single-cell RNA sequencing spatial transcriptomics...