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Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV) causes a significant proportion of disease in trout as well as in salmon. However, there is currently no commercial vaccine available to easily immunize fish against IHNV. A preventive treatment to reduce these considerable losses would be a significant contribution to the farmed salmonid industry. Bacteria belonging to the genera Pseudomonas, Achromo ...

Animal diseases caused by prions may be transmitted to humans and can now only be detected by examing brain tissue of slaughtered animals. The goal of this project is to develop a blood-based test for disease causing prions.

Forest Service and other first responder dispatchers need a tool to manage the migration from analog conventional to digital P25 transmissions and to link P25 control stations. In the long-term, conventional audio should be converted to the P25 format before it is routed across the network. In the short-term, some forests will need P25 audio converted to the analog format that they are using today ...

The long-term goal of this project is to develop and commercialize anthelmintic drugs to treat nematode infections of animals. Control of parasitic nematode infections in livestock and companion animals is currently dependent on chemical classes discovered more than two decades ago. The economic burden of nematode diseases and the rise of drug-resistant nematodes make it imperative that new effect ...

Plant parasitic nematodes are among the most important pests of crops in the United States. The USDA's Committee on National Needs and Priorities in Nematology estimated the value of plant damage by nematodes in the U.S. at $7-9 billion annually. Chemical control of nematodes has proven to be effective; however most nematicides have toxicological or environmental concerns and many are under regula ...

Understanding the dynamics of subsurface water movement is absolutely essential to managing water use and mitigating contamination of underground waters from surface sites or subsurface pumping. The goal of this project is to demonstrate a low-cost, highly accurate, quantitative autonomous monitor of groundwater flow dynamics.

Situation: The opportunity exists to help small, agricultural businesses in the U.S. dramatically increase their exports. This opportunity can be realized through the design, development and operation of an Agricultural Trade Network (ATN) that coordinates the activities and communication between all domestic and overseas stakeholders involved in the export/import process. Project Purpose: Design ...

Price transparency is vital to fair and seamless transactions in the organic food system. Price information is largely lacking in the organic sector, but has been assessed as a critical need for both the private and public sectors. Of the three price series now available to the industry, only one data product is representative of the entire U.S., offers an historical price series, and allows inter ...

Fecal contamination of water is widespread in the United States, and of particular concern to the animal/poultry-agriculture community. Accurate, timely, and cost-effective methods of identifying fecal sources are critical to correcting water contamination problems. Current methods of Bacterial Source Tracking (BST) include a variety of both molecular and non-molecular techniques; however, the reg ...

A. Ozone is the most important air pollutant in terms of damage to crops. B. Real-time monitoring of the ozone level in the atmosphere will be useful for preventing crop losses. A. This project is aimed to develop a reliable, accurate, precise and real-time ozone sensor. B. The sensor will be able to detect low ppb (10 to 180 ppb) levels of ozone in the atmosphere.