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jobs, local tax base, a variety of environmental benefits, scenic beauty, and food and fiber for human use. According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, the primary crops produced in Iron County are alfalfa, wheat, barley, and corn silage. Although agriculture plays a significant role in the economic, environmental, and cultural well-being of the county, many farms are struggling to keep up with technology and pressures from state and federal regulations. According to the Utah Agriculture

Avian Aspergillosis The subfamily Aspergillus has a wide range of fungi which can cause Avian Aspergillosis. Aspergillus Fumigatus is the most commonly diagnosed species of the fungus, others include flavus and niger. Aspergillus Fumigatus tends to thrive in moist and warm environments. Endotoxins are released through the dispersal of microscopic spores, which usually become airborne. This enables the disease to travel from one location to another and then proceed to grow, which creates areas that

The wild turkey is an animal most people have heard of because of hunting reasons, but do you know the basic facts? The wild turkey species has 6 subspecies; these include the eastern wild turkey, Osceola (Florida) wild turkey, Rio Grande wild turkey, Merriam's wild turkey, Gould's wild turkey, and Ocellated wild turkey. These turkeys are different in color but are mostly the same because they are the same species of animal. The wild turkey is dark in color, either brown, black, or a similar color

The Decline of British Bees There are over 1500 insect species that are thought to help with pollination in the UK. Virtually any insect that visits flowers can carry out pollination. This includes the best known, the bees along with butterflies, hoverflies, a few beetles and moths. Bees are a massive component in ecological systems with 78-94% of wild plant species and 75% of crop species pollinated by animals and provide important social and economic aids to humans through crop pollination and

Maternal Cattle Nutrition: When, Why, How Cattle. Without them, there would be no hamburgers, no steaks, and definitely no milk. Barbecues would different without the staple foods, ice cream would be non-existent, and many Americans would have a different profession than they do now. To keep them around, we breed them and raise the younger generation and from them, we get the food we talked about above. To make sure that every year’s calf crop is successful and healthy, farmers and ranchers need

The Soils of Putney Vermont The town of Putney is situated in the south eastern corner of Vermont, in the Connecticut River Valley. Although the town occupies just 26.8 square miles, the diversity of its soils is remarkable. The variation of Putney’s soils has led to a wide range of land uses depending on the soil type, and its position on the landscape. By exploring the factors that contributed to the formation of Putney’s soils, and by discussing the characteristics of those soils, this paper

There has been a lot of discussion among each committee about the initial state of the farm. After listening to each group, I have learned various amount of different things that are going on right now and what the plans are for the future. I have been excited about what I learned from each committee and can’t wait for the future. In the following I will state the main points that I learned from each committee and what each committee wants to do in the future. First the swine and customs committee

Sight, touch, taste, smell, hear, feel “Okay Kayla, Jennifer, and RaeLee, you guys count and we will all go hide, the save zone is the trampoline,” says Kendra, always taking charge. It was the Fourth of July, a hot summer night, and we were playing grey wolf with all of our friends. We had already done fireworks, and it was now around midnight, the only thing illuminating the darkness, was the light from the light poles. “Are there going to be any boundaries?” Torin asks. “No, it is all free

some possible ingredients in cattle feed from a CAFO were "Chicken manure, cattle manure, chocolate, stale pastry, cement dust, molasses, candy, urea, hooves, feathers, meat scraps, fish meal, pasta, peanut skins, brewery wastes, cardboard, corn silage, and pesticides" (49). These ingredients could have terrible effects on cattle raised in CAFOs or concentrated animal feeding operations and the people who eat them. The CAFOs, or feedlots, are giant places where thousands of cattle are confined to

Listeria monocytogenes Introduction Listeria monocytogenes, a motile, gram-positive rod, is an opportunistic food-borne pathogen capable of causing listeriosis in humans. Listeriosis includes manifestations of septicemia, meningitis, pneumonia, and encephalitis. L. monocytogenes is also implicated in miscarriages, stillbirth, and premature birth for pregnant women. L. monocytogenes is a tough bacterium resistant to freezing, drying, and heat; most strains have been shown to be pathogenic. It