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A new type of pestivirus in wildlife has been identified by Agricultural Research Service scientists. 'Pestivirus' is a scientific term for a group of viruses that includes economically important ones [...]

Concerns about food and environmental quality underscore the need for quick, nontoxic analysis of food contaminants. That's why Agricultural Research Service scientists are developing cleaner analytical methods that use nontoxic [...]

How far can bees carry pollen? At least two-thirds of a mile, according to ARS plant geneticist Daniel Z. Skinner in Pullman, Washington. Why is that important? Because pollen acts [...]

With Supercritical Fluid Extraction The road to producing more nutritious foods for health-conscious Americans may be paved by ARS scientists using an environmentally safe processing method known as supercritical fluid [...]

If you stare at the word 'nixtamalized' long enough, you can almost see the word 'tamale.' That's so apropos because many Mexican and Central American corn products--tamales, masa flour, and [...]

Whoever said 'the present is the future' might have watched automobile pioneer Henry Ford, who once grew soybeans on land owned by Ford Motor Company. His vision was to find [...]

Cleaner, greener jet fuels made from formulas that contain part soybean oil could clean up the air and give added profits to the nation's 400,000 soybean growers. Now that biodiesel […]

The U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, in Madison, Wisconsin, opened its doors in 1981 with a clear vision to assist dairy farmers by increasing the efficiency of forage production and […]

Alfalfa is still the most important forage fed to U.S. dairy cows, but red clover may be a better alternative. Feeding studies at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, in […]

Like the Egyptians who built pyramids to immortalize their best citizens, ARS researchers in Manhattan, Kansas, are building pyramids of genes to provide better-lasting resistance to wheat leaf rust. ARS [...]

Ticks aren't insects; they're acarines, closer kin to spiders. Unlike an insect's, a tick's head and body are one unit, resting entirely on eight legs. Even with so many legs, [...]

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Insects arthropods transmit viruses and bacterial agents that seriously threaten livestock, lessen the value of crops and ducts, and pose health risks to people. [...]

Sterile male screwworm fly marked with a numbered tag to study dispersal, behavior, and longevity. In Spanish, Gusano Barrenador del Ganado means the worm that augers into livestock. In English, […]

When fed in low doses, sodium chlorate kills Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in pigs and cows. Agricultural Research Service scientists in College Station, Texas, have shown that levels [...]

A new soy-based plywood glue stands ready to give the plywood industry what every industry wants: faster production at lower cost. To achieve this, ARS researchers at the National Center [...]

Harvesting a natural appetite suppressant from jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah) may give U.S. farmers one more reason to grow the plant, which is native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and [...]

A mysterious cotton disease known as bronze wilt appeared in the Midsouth and Southeast during the hot summers of 1995, 1996, and 1998. Similar disease symptoms were seen in peanuts [...]

In Wharton County, Texas, some corn farmers say they must control Mexican corn rootworms--the predominant pest of corn in their area--or get out of farming. To alleviate their woes, farmers [...]

Lactic acid, commonly used in foods as a flavoring or preservative, reduces Salmonella in two major organs in broiler chickens, according to ARS studies in College Station, Texas. One organ, [...]

All potatoes are related to each other, more or less. Some species are like brothers and sisters; others are distant cousins. One very wild Mexican cousin is Solanum pinnatisectum. Found [...]

Fifty-five percent of dried kenaf stalks will be used to make paper. Waste products from the process can be made into fertilizer and feed binder. Cotton's cousin, kenaf, may be [...]

'Smart' is the operative word for plants and seeds that can fight off insect pests--even when stored in grain bins for months. Among the newest crop of 'smarter' plants are [...]

When ARS agricultural engineer Larry Wagner in Manhattan, Kansas, reads newspaper reports of multicar accidents caused by blowing dust, he's convinced that changes in farming practices could help save lives [...]

Improving shelf life and minimizing off-flavors in margarines, shortenings, and cooking oils is important to both food manufacturers and consumers. But accomplishing this isn't easy because fats are complex mixtures [...]

There is a new reason why it may. be beneficial to allow cows to graze on pasture. That reason involves a compound called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). CLA is a [...]

Word-of-mouth advertising is important to spreading good news and good practices among people. ARS entomologist David W. Hagstrum hopes that in a few years grain elevator operators will pass on [...]

Zoonoses--animal diseases that are naturally communicable to humans--have inflicted health problems on millions of people worldwide. But the power of three devastating zoonotic diseases--brucellosis, leptospirosis, and tuberculosis (TB)--may someday be [...]

One day in 1959, University of Illinois scientist John Laughnan absentmindedly popped dry corn kernels into his mouth while shelling mutant seeds off cobs. He was surprised by the sweetness [...]

In the world of plants, green is usually good ... except in canola seeds. That's because too much green means too much chlorophyll has remained in the seed--meaning the seed [...]

Back in 1899, when America last prepared to greet a new century, the big news in animal health circles was a vaccine: the blackleg vaccine, a critical tool against a [...]

In the year 2020, midwestern farmland may blossom with pink, red, and purple flowers where corn and soybeans used to grow. The names of the new crops--cuphea, milkweed, and Euphorbia [...]

Like Cinderella, a hardy native plant called lesquerella may soon fit into the glass slipper of success. Agricultural Research Service scientists who are studying this wild, yellow-flowered member of the [...]

Midwest pork producers may someday be able to raise pigs with a natural ability to resist edema disease caused by an intestinal Escherichia coli bacterium. That's welcome news for producers [...]

Almost every year, a disease called head scab wreaks havoc somewhere in America. Scab now ranks as the worst plant disease to hit the United States since the stem rust [...]

Wheat breeders, farmers, millers, and bakers have special problems in meeting the challenges associated with delivering our daily bread to our dinner tables. Millers and processors demand varieties developed for [...]

Lactic acid--a colorless or slightly yellow, syrupy liquid--is naturally formed by the fermentation of lactose, or milk sugar. Its name comes from the Latin word 'lac,' which means milk. Commercially, [...]

Entomologist Peter D. Lingren (now retired) had a simple plan for keeping farmers' most damaging pest--the corn earworm--out of their corn and cottonfields. He would find out what adult corn [...]

Mastitis, an infection of the mammary gland, affects more than half of all U.S. dairy cows and costs the dairy industry more than $180 per cow annually. Marcus E. Kehrli, [...]

A new test that detects cattle tuberculosis bacteria within 3 days is a major improvement over current methods that can take up to 3 months. Mycobacterium bovis - the culprit [...]

Most U.S. warehouses fumigate three or four times a year to control moths and other stored product insect pests. Fumigation - costing about $20,000 each time - is initiated even [...]

Anyone who has ever been to a picnic knows insects are drawn to food. That's why developing new methods to keep insects out of food in packages, warehouses, and processing [...]

Cattle fever ticks--which include the southern cattle tick, Boophilus microplus, and the cattle tick, B. annulatus--became infamous in the years after the Civil War, when southern ranchers drove cattle to [...]

Midwestern soybean growers were caught unprepared for a visit from a foreign aphid during the summer of 2000. Native to Asia, Aphis glycines was found in soybean fields in Illinois [...]

Everyone likes to take shortcuts in time-consuming tasks. And wheat breeders are no exception. Someday, wheat breeders may be able to use new molecular tools being developed by ARS in [...]

Remember that old saying about how important it is to make new friends but keep the old, for one is silver and the other gold? That's how ARS researchers in [...]

In 1931, USDA's Bureau of Home Economics published the fourth edition of Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes, a compilation of the most popular recipes and menus from 'Housekeepers' Chats,' a 1926 [...]

Mycotoxins are naturally occurring chemicals made by fungi that can grow on corn, barley, wheat, and other commodities. One of these toxic chemicals, aflatoxin, is produced by Aspergillusflavus. It takes [...]

Finding and Protecting Wild Relatives of American Crops Last year, Diane Pavek spent the summer exploring more than 12,000 miles across states from Pennsylvania to Texas. She was searching for [...]