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Transl Anim Sci 2022 Jul 1;6(3):txac094. Epub 2022 Aug 1.

Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

Till date, with over 137,000 certified members, the most successful rancher educational program has been the Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program. The BQA program was established in the mid-1990's to improve animal health and welfare with a primary objective to reduce the incidence of injection site lesions by instructing producers to administer injections in the neck only. The present study investigated the drivers of this success to inform future rancher education programs around agricultural sustainability. Read More

Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2022 Aug 1. Epub 2022 Aug 1.

FAO, Pest and Pesticide Management, Rome, Italy.

This study presents an overview of the current situation of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) in North Africa and Near East countries (NENA). This work reviews the registered pesticides in the region and identify HHPs being used according to the criteria 1-8 for HHPs of FAO/WHO Guidelines on HHPs. In addition, to identify the weakness and the need of the region to mitigate the risk from the use of HHPs, the report ended with recommendations needed in the region to improve the pesticide managements and registration, such as improving the agricultural practices by adopting the integrated pest management IPM and including replacing HHPs with ecosystem-friendly alternatives if available. Read More

Bioresour Technol 2022 Jul 26;361:127697. Epub 2022 Jul 26.

Engineering Laboratory for AgroBiomass Recycling & Valorizing, College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China. Electronic address:

To investigate the effect of intermittent aeration on oxygen dynamics, organic matter degradation and main gas emissions, a lab-scale pig manure composting experiment was conducted with intermittent aeration (I_A, 30-min on and 30-min off) and continuous aeration (C_A). Although aeration volume and oxygen supply of I_A was only half of C_A, I_A could obviously enhance the oxygen utilization efficiency by 96.67 % and reduce energy dissipation for aeration by 50. Read More

One Earth 2022 Jul;5(7):756-766

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Summerland Research and Development Centre, Summerland, BC, Canada.

Extreme events, such as those caused by climate change, economic or geopolitical shocks, and pest or disease epidemics, threaten global food security. The complexity of causation, as well as the myriad ways that an event, or a sequence of events, creates cascading and systemic impacts, poses significant challenges to food systems research and policy alike. To identify priority food security risks and research opportunities, we asked experts from a range of fields and geographies to describe key threats to global food security over the next two decades and to suggest key research questions and gaps on this topic. Read More

Entropy (Basel) 2022 Jul 25;24(8). Epub 2022 Jul 25.

School of Computer and Information Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China.

In practical electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, there are some challenges in reducing the data burden and energy costs. Therefore, compressed sensing (CS) which can conduct under-sampling and reconstruction at the same time is adopted in the ECG monitoring application. Recently, deep learning used in CS methods improves the reconstruction performance significantly and can removes of some of the constraints in traditional CS. Read More