…Mosquito Prone? Mosquitoes are a pesky nuisance for many this time of year. Besides the irritating itch, infectious mosquito–transmitted diseases such as malaria, West Nile virus, Yellow fever, encephalitis, and…
Agri View: Beefalo
…is bison? The National Bison Association encourages the name bison to differentiate the American buffalo from the Asian Water buffalo and African Cape buffalo. The American buffalo is not a…
Animal Welfare Expert Temple Grandin to Speak at Fresno State
…faculty. Her visit will wrap up with a tour of the University Agricultural Laboratory animal units that include about 300 beef cattle, 380 dairy cattle, more than 500 swine, 20,000…
Agri View: Feral Hog Image
…today. I’m Everett Griner. From: USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Feral Swine – Methods for Managing Damage There are a variety of techniques that can be used to…
Zika Virus Battle
…new mosquito menace. “When Aedes aegypti first came to the United States a few hundred years ago, there were major epidemics of yellow fever in the East and South,” Cornel…
African leaders visit CDFA
Young African leaders visit CDFA to learn about agriculture, energy and the environment From: CDFA Office of Public Affairs UC Davis hosted 25 Young African Leaders as part of the…
The People’s Department: A New Era for Civil Rights at USDA
…USDA customers. In addition, to address long-standing allegations of discrimination, we settled thousands more claims as part of large-scale class-action lawsuits in the district courts with Native American and African-American…
World Food Prize Honors
…programs that convinced almost two million households in 10 African countries to plant, purchase and consume this nutritionally fortified food. Dr. Howarth Bouis, the founder of HarvestPlus at the International…
NPPC Honors Industry Leader ‘Pig’ Paul
…the boards of directors of the American Yorkshire Club and the United Duroc Swine Registry – now known as the National Swine Registry – and as field man for the…
Adama Reports Strong Volume Growth, Increased Profits
…the South African Rand, the Indian Rupee and the Turkish Lira, sales in the region grew by 10.6 % in the quarter compared to the corresponding period in 2015. In…
Agri View: Chocolate Pleasure
…751 West African climate stations. They showed that parts of the West African cocoa belt, which extends from Sierra Leone to Cameroon, are in danger of becoming savanna by 2050…
U.S. Beef Hits South Africa
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed that the first shipment of U.S. beef recently arrived in South Africa following the reopening of the South African market earlier this year….
Agri View: Ostrich Farming
…losing its monopoly on the ostrich. Another problem was also looming from the exports of South African ostriches into various countries, and that was the heart-water fever virus. Heart-water fever…
Agri View: Feral Hog Efforts
…hog control programs. (Photo courtesy of The Augusta Chronicle) “Basically it’s giving a salt overdose to pigs,” said Matthew Ondovchik, Georgia’s feral swine coordinator with the USDA’s Wildlife Services program….