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Digital Plant Diagnosis: Turning a Mobile App into an Agricultural Game-Changer

July 13, 2016 Scott Elliott, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Ireland lost about 20 percent of its population to starvation and emigration during the great famine of 1845-1849 because disease destroyed that nation’s major food source – potato. Today, an Irish-born professor at Penn State University believes that a similar situation in other regions, such as...

Food and Nutrition

Students Aid Invasive Species Control While Learning

April 25, 2013 Brian Archuleta, Wildlife Services, Roswell District Supervisor

USDA Wildlife Services (WS) employees in New Mexico have been fabricating the traps and tools for their jobs for many years. As feral swine management work began in the state, naturally we began to build our own traps and gates to contain this invasive and damaging mammal.

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