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A collection of articles from Agricultural Research magazine featuring research conducted at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
Agricultural Research is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's science magazine, published monthly by the Agricultural Research Service and also available electronically.
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Historical Perspective
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center - When the top 10 milestones for the past 100 years of plant pest and pathogen research were published by the American Phytopathological Society, two were work from scientists at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), for discovery of new forms of life.
Agricultural Reasearch magazine, October 2001 Complete Article
ARS Experts as Firefighters: Our scientists respond to international agricultural problems that affect the United States - Most of the time when you think of scientists solving problems, you picture months or years of experiments and study. But sometimes ARS scientists are called on to be firefighters—helping cool down international agricultural hot spots that are critical to the United States and the world.
Agricultural Reasearch magazine, May 2006 Complete Article
BARC Research is Key to Development of Dietary Guidelilnes
Nutrition Info While On the Go - Picture, for example, a female health enthusiast cruising a grocery store's seafood counter. She wants to make sure she gets her recommended dietary allowance of protein. She whips out her personal digital assistant, or PDA, and up comes a searchable version of USDA's flagship nutrient database of more than 6,000 food items.
Agricultural Reasearch magazine, March 2003 Complete Article
Animal Health
New Mastitis Treatment May Offer Alternative to Antibiotics - A new weapon could be on tap for fighting bacteria that cause mastitis, an inflammatory udder disease of dairy cows costing around $2 billion annually in animal and milk-production losses. .
Agricultural Reasearch magazine, February 2006 Complete Article
Farm Nutrient Tracking
Shedding Light on Manure Nutrients - Agricultural Research Service chemist James Reeves has built a prototype for a manure analyzer that works off a vehicle battery and can be set on a truck’s tailgate.
Manure is one of those"good things" of which it’s sometimes easy to get too much, especially when it’s overapplied to fertilize field crops. Any excess nutrients—nitrogen or phosphorus—can run off in rainwater to eventually pollute streams, lakes, and other bodies of water.
Agricultural Reasearch magazine, July 2006 Complete Article
Tracking Manure-Borne Pathogens - Two self-contained artificial hills in Beltsville, Maryland, may yield some answers about one path that microbial pathogens can take to taint food and water supplies. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service want their study, begun this year, to lead to better ways for dairy and beef farmers to thwart pathogens.
Agricultural Reasearch magazine, November 1999 Complete Article
Plants as Food
Socking It to Strawberry Root Rot - Who’d have thought that compost-filled filter socks could substitute for the banned soil fumigant methyl bromide? But tests have shown that planting strawberries in these flexible tubes significantly reduced incidence of black root rot and increased yields 16- to 32-fold.
Agricultural Reasearch magazine, September 2007 Complete Article
Seeds of Knowledge: New online guide helps identify the world’s seeds and fruits. - If there’s a perfect entity in nature, it would have to be seeds.
These compact packages—in an astounding array of sizes, shapes, colors, and textures—contain all the reproductive material a plant needs for making hundreds, if not thousands, more of itself.
Agricultural Reasearch magazine, March 2007 Complete Article
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