Livestock such as cattle suffer from many infectious diseases farmers and veterinarians fight every day.
Parasites are one very important group of disease agents. Effective antiparasitic drugs help agriculture by …
Phosphorus (P) is essential to all life ranging from microorganisms, plants, and animals to human beings.
Phosphorus is a major structural component of bone, cell membranes, energy production and storage compounds adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and adenosine diphosphate (ADP), and nucleic …
Mary Jo sits down at her kitchen table with a potential buyer to negotiate the sale of her lambs.
She dislikes haggling over prices like many agricultural producers in Wyoming. She wonders if she will get a good deal compared …
Preserving and passing the land on to future generations has been noted as one major reason ranchers stay in the livestock business despite its mental, physical, and financial hardships.
Although profit and economic incentives are not always the driving forces …
Biology is being rapidly transformed from an analytical to a synthetic, engineering discipline. For millennia, we have observed, described, and studied animals, plants, and microbes. We have tinkered with them for sure, …
Fermentation is an ancient method of making food safer and last longer. Carbohydrates are converted to alcohol or organic acids through the actions of bacteria (or yeast) in an oxygen-free environment.
The presence of bacteria makes these foods a probiotic, …
The idea was conceived while sitting at a table drinking coffee and chatting about a recently released request for proposals funded by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) to conduct international studies in Feed the Future* countries.
We and …
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