Drivers Impacting the Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Management Practices and Production Systems of the Northeast and Southeast United States G. F. Sassenratha; J. M. Halloranb; D. Archerc; R. L. Raperd; J. Hendricksonc; P. Vadase; J. Hansonc a USDA-ARS Crop Production Systems Research Unit, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA b USDA-ARS New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Lab, University...

Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria Department of Biological Sciences, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, P.M.B 71 Yenagoa, Nigeria Department of Animal Science, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria Chemical, Biological and Agricul...

EARLY STUDIES ON EGG DISINFECTION M. E. BERRANG' USDA, ARS, PPMQRU, Russell Research Center, Athens, GA 30604-5677 Phone: (706) 546-3551 F M : (706) 546-3633 E-mail: [email protected] N. A. COX USDA, ARS, PMSRU, Russell Research Center, Athens, GA 306045677 J. E FRANK Univmity of Georgia, Food Science and Technology, Athens, GA 30602 R J. BUHR USDA, ARS, PPMQRU, Russell Resemh Center, Athens, G...

William J. Otrosina, Supervisory Research Plant Pathologist, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens, GA, 30602; ‘N$m.J. Hess9 Plant Pathologist, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Staff, Alexandria Field Office, Pineville, LA;, 71360; S&mley J. Zarnach, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Asheville, NC 28802; Thelma J. Perry, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research St...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) currently uses a bidding system to determine carriers and suppliers that would partner in providing food aid annually in response to global emergencies and famine. We mimic the USDA approach via a robust optimization model featuring box and ellipsoid uncertainty frameworks to account for uncertainties in demand, supplier and carrier bid prices. Through ...

Influence of Tylenchorhynchus ewingi on growth of loblolly pine seedlings, and host suitability of legumes and small grains Stephen W. FRAEDRICH 1·*, Michelle M. CRAM 2, Zafar A. HANDOO 3 and Stanley J. ZARNOCH 4 1 Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service Athens, GA 30602, USA 2 Forest Health Protection, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 30602, USA 3 USDA Agricultural Research Service, Nema...

The mission of the Cooperative Extension System as related to 4-H programming is to enable youth to acquire knowledge, develop life skills, and form attitudes which will enable them to become self-directing. productive and contributing members of society (ES-USDA, 1990). The objectives of the 4-H program are often categorized into three major “life skills” areas: 1) competency--developing knowl...

Free-living soybean rhizobia and Bradyrhizobium spp. (lupine) have the ability to catabolize ethanol. Of the 30 strains of rhizobia examined, only the fast- and slow-growing soybean rhizobia and the slow-growing Bradyrhizobium sp. (lupine) were capable of using ethanol as a sole source of carbon and energy for growth. Two strains from each of the other Rhizobium species examined (R. meliloti, R...

M. R. Miles, United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), National Soybean Research Center, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801; M. A. Pastor-Corrales, USDA-ARS, Vegetable Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705; G. L. Hartman, USDA-ARS, National Soybean Research Center, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana; and R. D. Frederick, Foreign Dise...