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Song Of The Dzopa: A Case Study Of Traditional Farming, Food, And, Isabella Pezzulo

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

In a plane high above the snow-capped jagged peaks and cracked earth of Ladakh, I stared down below with awe, wondering how people ever coaxed life from the soil in this mountain-desert landscape. The intention of this study is to see how traditional subsistence farming actually takes place and the social settings formed by these practices. Living in the village of Tar for a little over twenty days allowed me to observe the age-old practices in which nourishment is produced and community formed through working the land. Working with my hands and resting with cups of butter tea alongside villagers …

They Care What You Eat: With Ingredients From The Classroom, Colbians Are Helping To Shape A New Maine, On The Farm, In The Sea, At The Restaurant Table, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

With ingredients from the classroom, Colbians are helping to shape a new Maine, on the farm, in the sea, at the restaurant table.

Isolation, Identification And Biological Characteristics Of A Bacteriocin-Producing Lactic Acid Bacteria Strain Isolated From Fermented Soybean Processing Wastewater, Yin Lebin, Zhang Chenfei, Sun Jing, Kong Xiaoting, Xia Qiuliang, Zhou Xinxing, Du Yan, Lai Han, Zhao Liangzhong

Food and Machinery

A bacteriocin-producing lactic acid bacteria strain designated as NLB-3 was isolated from natural fermentation broth of a soybean plant. By excluding the disturbances of organic acids and H₂O₂ to antibacterial activity of indicator bacteria, and after the fermentation broth protein stability analysis, the antibacterial substance was determined as bacteriocin. On the basis of the colonies, cells morphology, dissolved calcium circle, physiological and biochemical characteristics, strain NLB-3 was preliminary identified as Lactobacillus sp.. The biological characteristics of strain NLB-3 showed that, its optimum growth temperature was at 35 ℃, after 16 hours fermentation, the pH value reached 3.45 …

Determination Of Streptomycin Residue By In Tomatoes By Synchronous Fluorescence Of Cdte Quantum Dots, Mao Yongqiang, Hu Meina, Li Na, Zhang Dan, Mao Jing

Food and Machinery

Thioglycolic acid capped CdTe quantum dots (QDs) was prepared via hydrothermal synthesis method. Based on the synchronous fluorescence enhancement of CdTe QDs in the presence of streptomycin, a synchronous fluorescence method for the determination of streptomycin residue was established. Influence factors including pH value of buffer solution, concentration of CdTe QDs and reaction time were investigated. The samples were extracted with methanol by ultrasonic processing, and were added into the solution which was composed of 1.0 mL of CdTe quantum dots (3.5×10^-5 mol/L) and 1.0 mL of Tris—HCl buffer solution (pH=6.0). After standing for 10 min, the synchronous fluorescence …

Application Of Detection In Food Adulteration By Using Rapid Optical Analysis Technology, Wang Long, Zhu Rongguang, Dua Nhongwei, Xu Weidong

Food and Machinery

The rapid optical analysis technology, which is a fast and nondestructive testing technology, has been widely used. This essay summarizes the application of Near infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and Hyperspectral imagimg techniques in detecting adulterated food, including, but not limited to, dairy products, edible oil and meat. This review also proposes the existing technical problems in the present stage of optical fast analysis methods and looks forward into the future of the technology.

Research Progress On Determination Of Total Polyphenols In Grape And Wine, Niu Xue, Zhang Junxiang, Xu Guoqian

Food and Machinery

Phenols are the main components of wine and important, and are the major function substance on health care. Thus, accurate determination of total content of phenolic compounds in wines has important effect on health care and wine quality judgment. The paper summarizes potassium permanganate method, Folin-Ciocalteu, Prussian Blue assay, vanillin-hydrochloric acid (sulfuric acid), high performance liquid chromatography, and protein precipitation assays, and compares and analyze advantages and disadvantages of above methods to provide a reference for the research of ways in screening and optimizing detection of total phenols contents of wines.

Visual Design Of Three Dimensional Potato Vertical Peeling Machine Based On Solid Works, Miao Hongtao, Xia Jingjing

Food and Machinery

With the times development, people pays more attention to the food processing industry. Analyzed the wording principles and efficiency of the formal potato peeling machine by Solid Works a three-dimensional simulation, and based on the formal pelling process, an new vertical peeling machine was designed which had a continuous potato peeling recycle system, including elaborated preparing，washing, peeling processing and unloading. It could greatly reduces the manual links, and improved the efficiency of potato peeling. The visual simulation of potato peeling was finished by Solid Works software.

Low-Intensity, Stocker-Based Channel Catfish Culture, Bartholomew W. Green, Carole R. Engle, Rebecca Lochmann, Harold Phillips

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Low-intensity production of Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus is characterized by low stocking rates, low installed aeration capacity, and no automated dissolved oxygen monitoring. Two studies conducted in nine 0.25-acre ponds quantified production characteristics of stocker Channel Catfish stocked for low-intensity food-fish production in single- or multiple-batch culture. In the multiple-batch study, 0.5-lb stockers (carryover fish) were stocked at 4,500 fish/acre and 0.044-lb fingerlings at 6,000 fish/acre. Stockers were grown to mean individual weights of 1.25, 1.75, or 2.25 lb. In the single-batch study, 0.5-lb stockers were stocked at 3,500, 4,500, and 5,500 fish/acre. All fish were fed a feed containing …

Information Thermodynamics Of Cytosine Dna Methylation, Robersy Sanchez Rodriguez, Sally Ann Mackenzie

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Cytosine DNA methylation (CDM) is a stable epigenetic modification to the genome and a widespread regulatory process in living organisms that involves multicomponent molecular machines. Genome-wide cytosine methylation patterning participates in the epigenetic reprogramming of a cell, suggesting that the biological information contained within methylation positions may be amenable to decoding. Adaptation to a new cellular or organismal environment also implies the potential for genome-wide redistribution of CDM changes that will ensure the stability of DNA molecules. This raises the question of whether or not we would be able to sort out the regulatory methylation signals from the CDM background …

2016 Trends In Nebraska Farmland Markets: Farming And Ranching On The Margin, Jim Jansen, Roger K. Wilson

Cornhusker Economics

Agricultural commodity markets continued their decline in 2015 and 2016 as producers across Nebraska faced lower prices for crops and livestock. Lower values have resulted in tighter margins for servicing rent or debt payments. Preliminary findings from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Survey 2016 indicate that as of February 1, 2016 the weighted average farmland value declined by about 4 percent over the prior 12-month period to $3,135 per acre (Figure 1 and Table 1). This decline marks the second consecutive year of lower weighted average farmland values in Nebraska.

Mitigation Of Ergot Vasoconstriction By Clover Isoflavones In Goats (Capra Hircus), Glen E. Aiken, Michael D. Flythe, Isabelle A. Kagan, Huihua Ji, Lowell P. Bush

Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center Faculty Publications

Ergot alkaloids produced by a fungal endophyte (Epichloë coenophiala; formerly Neotyphodium coenophialum) that infects tall fescue (Lolium arundinaceum) can induce persistent constriction of the vasculature in ruminants, hindering their capability to thermo-regulate core body temperature. There is evidence that isoflavones produced by legumes can relax the vasculature, which suggests that they could relieve ergot alkaloid-induced vasoconstriction and mitigate the vulnerability to severe heat stress in ruminants that graze tall fescue. To test if isoflavones can relieve alkaloid-induced vasoconstriction, two pen experiments were conducted with rumen-fistulated goats (Capra hircus) to determine with ultrasonograpy if …

Analysis Of Johne’S Disease Elisa Status And Associated Performance Parameters In Irish Dairy Cows, A. E. Kennedy, N. Byrne, A. B. Garcia, Jim O'Mahony, R. G. Sayers

Department of Biological Sciences Publications

Infection with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) has been associated with reductions in milk production in dairy cows and sub optimal fertility. The aim of this study was to highlight the production losses associated with testing MAP ELISA positive in Irish dairy cows. Secondary objectives included investigation of risk factors associated with testing MAP ELISA positive. A survey of management practices on study farms was also conducted, with examination of associations between management practices and herd MAP status.

Blood samples were collected from 4188 breeding animals on 22 farms. Samples were ELISA tested using the ID Screen Paratuberculosis Indirect Screening …

Proceedings Of The 43rd Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (March 9-10, 2016, Pensacola Beach, Florida), Trey Price, Tom Allen, Travis Faske, Eduardo Chagas Da Silva

Southern Soybean Disease Workers: Conference Proceedings

Contents

Schedule

Southern United States Soybean Disease Loss Estimates for 2015. TW Allen, CA Bradley, JP Damicone, NS Dufault, TR Faske, CA Hollier, T Isakeit, RC Kemerait, NM Kleczewski, SR Koenning, HL Mehl, JD Mueller, C Overstreet, PP Price, EJ Sikora, TN Spurlock, and H Young

Soilborne Disease Symposium (Tom Allen, moderator)

Integrated management of sudden death syndrome. D Mueller, L Leandro, Y Kandel, C Bradley, M Chilvers, A Tenuta, and K Wise

Field screening for stem canker: an outdated exercise or a necessary service for soybean growers? K Rowe and T Kirkpatrick

Nematode associated diseases in soybean. C Overstreet, …

Trails As Resource Connections In Your Community, Jayoung Koo

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

A trail is a linear path segment that is naturally or intentionally created by users (humans and/or animals) to traverse their landscape and connect destinations. As a collective, a trail system is comprised of multiple paths that are connected in an overall network that may include paths exclusively in towns or in nature, but also connect one place to another place. Effectively laid out trails can fulfill multiple goals and objectives and also have significant indirect benefits for communities. Depending on the form or function, there are different types of trails to be considered (Table 1). Trail systems can include …

Trail Planning, Jayoung Koo

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

There are two general ways to begin a trail project in a community. The first method is for the community (client) to hire design or planning professionals such as landscape architects, urban planners or engineers to lead a trail project on behalf of the community. The second way involves a grass roots approach where a community gets the project started and develops the conceptual ideas on their own and then later brings in professionals during the design phase. Regardless of the approach for the initial phase, professionals need to be involved to eventually construct the trail(s) but how much of …

Kentucky Nutrient Management Planning Guidelines (Kynmp) [2016], Stephen F. Higgins, Kylie Schmidt, Amanda A. Gumbert

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Nutrients are constantly cycling through farms. Nutrients come onto a farm in the form of feed, commercial fertilizers, manure, or compost, and they leave the farm with harvested crops, sold livestock, and off-site disposal of manure and other waste. Sometimes nutrients are even lost to the air, soil, or water. Nutrient management allows farmers to use nutrients (specifically nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) wisely for optimal economic benefit with minimal impact on the environment.

Approximately 80 percent of nutrients fed to an animal passes through the gut and into its manure. If managed correctly, the nutrients and organic matter in this …

Genetically Engineered Crops: Emerging Opportunities, Paul C. Vincelli

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Biotechnology is “any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use.” This definition encompasses many, many applications, including traditional ones such as fermentation of alcoholic beverages.

In certain biotech crops, their genetic material (DNA) has been purposefully manipulated in the laboratory. These genetically engineered crops are often called “GMOs,” an acronym for “genetically modified organisms.” These GMOs are the focus of this publication.

Plant Diseases [2016], Kimberly Leonberger, Kelly Jackson, Robbie Smith, Nicole Ward Gauthier

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Anyone who has ever planted a garden knows not only the rewards of beautiful flowers, fruit, and/ or vegetables, but also the disappointment when plants become diseased or damaged. Many factors cause plants to exhibit poor vigor, changes in appearance, or even death. Both abiotic (non-living) and biotic (living) factors can negatively impact plant heath. Disorders that result from non-living factors (such as nutrient deficiencies, over/under watering, temperature stress, and chemical damage) are discussed in subsequent chapters. This chapter focuses on those living organisms that cause disease: fungi, water molds, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, phytoplasmas, and parasitic plants.

Hydrologic And Water Quality Impacts From Perennial Crop Production On Marginal Lands, Qingyu Feng

Open Access Dissertations

Marginal lands are proposed as a viable option for producing biofeedstocks as these lands are not heavily engaged in agricultural production or may not be suitable for intensive row-crop food/feed production. However, meeting biofeedstock production goals will require large amount of marginal lands and the unintended consequences of producing biofeedstocks on marginal lands are not fully clear. The overall goal of this study was to evaluate the productivity of biofeedstocks on marginal lands and the potential impacts on hydrologic and water quality processes from the land use conversion.

This study was conducted in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). First, …

Nebline, March 2016

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: It’s Easier Than Ever to Connect with Extension — Mobile Device and Social Media are Changing the Way People Learn

Food & Health

Family Living

Farm & Acreage

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

Student-Conducted Farmer Video Interviews, Jenn K. Simons, Justin Van Wart, Charles Francis, Kristyn Harms

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

High school agricultural education teachers have expressed concern about the lack of easily accessible educational materials dealing with contemporary topics in sustainable agriculture. There are numerous textbooks and monographs available for farmers and students at the college level, including the highly practical resources available from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) book series on soil fertility (Magdoff and van Es, 2010), cover crops (Bowman et al., 2007) and building a farm business (DiGiacomo et al., 2003), among others. Although these are full of color photos and easily accessible graphs and tables, they are still in the print media category. …

Determination Of Total Polyphenolsin Barley Spent Gains By Folin-Ciocalteu Colorimetric Method, Mei Jin, Ding Wenping, Xiong Jinjuan, Zhuang Kun

Food and Machinery

The total polyphenol content in barley spent gains were analyzed by Folin-Ciocalteu method. The optimum conditions were investigated using gallic acid as standard. and were as followed: Folin-Ciocalteu reagent 1.0 mL, 8% Na2CO3 3.0 mL, developing temperature 25 ℃, reaction time 60 min, in darkness. Then the solution was detected at the wavelength of 760 nm. When the gallic acid was in range of 0～8 μg/mL, the concentration and the absorbance value had a good linear relationship. The regression equation was found as followed: y=0.121x+0.017 1, R2=0.999 2. This method had advantages of conciseness, good stability and high accuracy, which …

Social Principles Of Good Agriculture, Ronald Vos

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"If Christians are to live out their lives before the face of God, where should they look for guiding principles in how to conduct agriculture?"

Posting about ­­­­­­­­transformation in the field of agriculture from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/social-principles-of-good-agriculture/

Conversations With Gunanurang, Lawrence Smith

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Gunanurang (the Ord River) nurtured some of the original Australians productively for millennia. In less than 150 years, their relationship with the river valley and surrounding land was almost destroyed by the effects of the east Kimberley cattle industry commenced in the 1880s. The biological and archaeological surveys before and during the filling of the Lake Argyle dam were a belated attempt to understand what was being lost in the way of ecosystems and aboriginal sites. This short essay encapsulates the impact of the pastoral industry in the Ord valley.

Comparative Evaluation Of The Effect Of Methyl Bromide Fumigation And Phytosanitary Irradiation On The Quality Of Fresh Strawberries, Tamar Serapian, Anuradha Prakash

Food Science Faculty Articles and Research

Fresh strawberries are highly perishable and have a short shelf-life especially when the cold chain is not maintained. Strawberries exported to Asia are currently fumigated with methyl bromide for phytosanitary purposes, which exposes strawberries to warm temperatures for several hours and air freight without temperature control, resulting in a shelf life of just a few days in the destination country. Irradiation offers an efficacious alternative to fumigation and can be performed on cold fruit. This study was conducted to compare the quality of strawberries subject to methyl bromide fumigation or irradiation followed by simulated commercial air freight shipment of strawberries …

Buying Bulls By Value, Matthew C. Stockton, Roger K. Wilson

Cornhusker Economics

Choosing the right bull for your herd is a complex decision involving many factors including the type of person you are, the type of cows in your herd, and the type of calf you are marketing. If you are only interested in producing terminal market animals you would likely select a herd sire strictly for growth and carcass qualities. Whereas, if you sell weaned calves and keep your own replacement females, you may be more likely to focus on bulls with more maternal traits.

Grain Sorghum (Milo) Production In Kentucky, Carrie Ann Knott, Edwin L. Ritchey, James R. Martin, Chad Lee, Doug Johnson, Carl Bradley, Sam Mcneill

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) (Figure 1) can be used for a variety of purposes including animal feed, unleavened breads, cakes, wallboard, starch, dextrose, brooms, ethanol, high quality wax, and alcoholic beverages. Grain sorghum produced in Kentucky is most commonly used for animal feed and was first grown here in the 1920s. Although acreage in Kentucky has fluctuated considerably over the years, yields have generally exceeded the national average since the 1970s (Figure 2), indicating that grain sorghum is an option for producers interested in diversifying grain crop operations.

Drought Risk Management For Beef Cattle Farms, Stephen F. Higgins, Lee Moser, Kylie Schmidt

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

One of the most challenging aspects of owning and operating any farming operation is dealing with uncertainty. Uncertainty on the farm comes in many forms; livestock health, feed prices, fuel prices, market prices, and weather to name a few. Over the past decade, the prevalence and impact of drought on agriculture has dramatically increased, thus adding further uncertainty to farmers’ decision-making processes. Drought and the associated loss of productivity is a real risk scenario that all farmers must face. With this inherent risk, one must protect their farm and the environment it impacts through a sound decision-making process that factors …

Nebline, February 2016

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: Tips to Keep Your Heart Healthy — February is Heart Health Month

Food & Health

Family Living

Farm & Acreage

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

Management Of Wild Turkeys In Utah, Nicki Frey, Mallory Ortego

All Current Publications

This fact sheet describes wild turkeys, how to identify them, their habitats, their status in Utah, issues and concerns, and how to manage damage they may do to crops.