Challenges and published guidelines associated with appropriate care and use of farm animals in agricultural research conducted outside the laboratory are briefly reviewed. The Animal Welfare Act (Title 9 of the 2000 Code of Federal Regulations), which regulates the care and use of agricultural animals in biomedical research, does not include livestock and poultry used in agricultural research....

D.K. Miller*, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Northeast Research Station, P. O. Box 438, St. Joseph, LA 71366; D.O. Stephenson, IV, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Dean Lee Research Station, 8105 Tom Bowman Dr., Alexandria, LA 71302; and D.C. Blouin, Dept. Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 161 Ag. Admin. Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA...

Graz University of Technology, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Petersgasse 12, A6 8010 Graz, Austria; Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Messeweg 11, D-38104 Braunschweig, 7 Germany, Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute, National Banana Research Program, 8 Uganda; Makerere University, Department of Agricultural Production, College of 9 Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Uganda and B...

Science and technology parks have been a major driver of both the commercialization of agricultural innovation and the financial success of many farm and agribusiness firms. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to explain the factors affecting commercialization of agricultural innovation in Kermanshah Science and Technology Park. The experts of this center were sampled by the census me...

Matthew J. Helmers, associate professor, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University; Xiaobo Zhou, assistant scientist, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University; Heidi Asbjornsen, associate professor, Natural Resource and the Environment, University of New Hampshire; Randy Kolka, soil scientist, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station; Mark D. Tom...

1) National Agricultural Research Center for the Western Region, WeNARC, NARO, 1-3-1 Senyu, Zentsuji, Kagawa 765-8508, Japan 2) National Institute of Crop Science, NICS, NARO, 2-1-18 Kannondai, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8518, Japan 3) National Agricultural Research Center, NARC, NARO, 1-2-1, Inada, Joetsu, Niigata 943-0193, Japan 4) Present address: 1327 Ashiro Higashimiyoshi, Tokushima 771-2502, Jap...

1 Burie Agricultural College, P.O. Box Rissneleden 19, Sundbyberg, 17453 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI), P.O. Box 527, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 3 School of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Science, Haramaya University, P.O. Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia 4 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), P.O. Box 95076...

1 Immunobiotics Research Group, Tucuman, Argentina, 2 Laboratory of Immunobiotechnology, Reference Centre for Lactobacilli (CERELA-CONICET), Tucuman, Argentina, 3 Food and Feed Immunology Group, Laboratory of Animal Products Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 4 Livestock Immunology Unit, International Education and Research Center for Food and ...

*Okit su Branch, Fruit Tree Research Station, Okitsunakacho, Shimizu-shi, Shizuoka 424-02 **National Research lnstitute of Vegetables , Ornamental Plants and Tea, Ano-cho, Age-gun, Mie 514-23 ***Agricultural Technical Center , National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations, 5-5-1, Higashihachiman, Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254 ****Chugoku National Agricultural Experiment Station , ...

In 1973, Jim Hightower and his associates at the Agribusiness Accountability Project dropped a bombshell – HardTomatoes,HardTimes–onthe land-grantcollegeandagricultural scienceestablishments.Fromtheearly1970s until roughly 1990, Hightower-style criticism of and activism toward the public agricultural research system focusedonasetof closely interrelated themes: the tendencies for thepublicly sup...