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Forest insect pests cause significant economic and ecological damage every year. Dramatically increased pest activity in recent years suggests that changing climate conditions will inflate the uncertainty associated with pest risk assessments. Advances in forest pest risk analysis methodology are needed to allow managers to better explore the consequences and value of alternative management scenar ...

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Although laboratory-scale advances in molecular and genetic engineering bring the promise of one day utilizing plants to produce human therapeutic proteins (such as insulin) there is a concomitant requirement for technological advances in plant biomass production that will convey the future products of plant molecular engineering to the marketplace in a safe, secure, reliable and economically feas ...

The rapid development of the Internet, combined with the increasing power of microcomputers,provides an opportunity to improve greatly the quality of information available to the managers of dairyfarms. Internet technology provides a framework upon which information can be distributed quickly,with great flexibility, and at low cost, but existing information tools for dairy management are largelyo ...

Foreign petroleum constitutes more than 60% of the oil used in the United States, and although significant strides are being taken to ensure future independence for fuel needs, the 10% of petroleum imports that are used as feedstock to produce materials are typically ignored. High density petrol-foams such as Divinycell or H1, are commonly used in products from vehicle panels to wind turbine blade ...

BVDV is a highly contagious disease that affects ruminant livestock. The virus is spread among cattle, is found in most parts of the world and is considered a high priority by the USDA. BVDV affects nutrition, milk production, respiratory and reproduction functions of cattle. BVD can suppress the immune system thus increasing susceptibility to pneumonia, diarrhea (scours), and reproductive failure ...

The citrus leafminer (CLM), Phyllocnistis citrella, Stainton (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), is an important pest of citrus originally found in Florida in 1993 and in Texas in 1994. Feeding by the larval stage results in serious damage to leaves and predisposes trees to citrus canker. Female CLM release their pheromone to attract males for mating. Attract and Kill (A&K) is the practice of deploying ...

An objective Canopy Weather Forecast System (CWFS) will be developed and tested. The system willbe based on a site-specific one-dimensional (1-D) soil-canopy-atmospheric boundary layer numericalmodel which is coupled to a three-dimensional (3-D) mesoscale atmospheric numerical model. Theoutput from the CWFS will be designed for input into a variety of models that provide directinformation for cr ...

Excess manure is a cause of reduced water quality in agricultural watersheds. In order to offset the cost of transporting the manure out of these watersheds, it must be converted into a higher value product This project is designed to examine the cost of large-scale earthworm composting systems to convert dairy manure into more user-friendly, and value-added products

RT Solutions, LLC (RTS) has built a unique process-controlled "state-of-the-art" earthworm composting facility that process and transforms large volumes of dairy manures into a user friendly and unique plant production product with established horticultural consumers. This environmentally friendly technology known as vermicomposting uses earthworms in an engineered system to consistently produce a ...