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Search this blog, registration for the research update for ag professionals now open.

Curious about the latest independent and unbiased research findings of your Land Grant Universities and how those findings pertain to advising your clients to best manage their crops? The UofM and NDSU agronomy, entomology, plant pathology, soil, and weed science extension faculty are going on the road in the first half of January to share their data, interpretations, and conclusions with you at the Research Update for Ag Professionals in Owatonna, Willmar, and Crookston. The complete list of speakers and titles is listed below and can also be found here . Attendance at the three in-person meetings is limited to the first eighty people who register .

Do not panic if you can not make it to one of the three in-person meetings.  You might miss the cookies and coffee but you will not miss the other essentials if you sign up for the online edition of the Research Update for Ag Professionals. The online edition will feature many of the same speakers and topics and is spread out over three dates to create flexibility for you and reduce your Zoom fatigue. The complete list of speakers and titles is in the listed below and can also be found here . Register here for the online edition of the Research Update for Ag Professionals.

As always, the complete program will be approved for CCA continuing education credits.

Speaker and Titles for the Research Updates for Ag Professionals: 

Owatonna and Willmar (January 3rd and 4th)

• Jeff Coulter - Mid-season Application of Nitrogen and Sulfur for Corn
• Fei Yang - Ongoing Resistance of European Corn Borer and Corn Rootworm in Bt Corn
• Dan Kaiser - Best Management Practices for Nitrogen Fertilizer Use
• Seth Naeve - Soybean Management for Increased Yields
• Dean Malvick - Research Briefs on Soybean Root and Stem Diseases and Tar Spot of Corn
• Debalin Sarangi - Herbicide Resistance: Are We Losing the Battle Against Weeds?
• Anthony Hanson - Soybean and alfalfa insect management updates for 2024
• Clair Keene - Biological N Products in Corn
• Fabian Fernandez - Best Management Practices for Nitrogen Fertilizer Use
• Jochum Wiersma - HRSW Variety Update
• Ashok Chanda - Sugarbeet Disease Management
• Lindsay Pease - Crop Residue Levels and N Availability in Strip-tilled Sugar Beet
• Ian Macrae - Insect Retrospective 2023 – “A Man’s Hindsight is Better Than His Foresight By A Damn Site!” (Theodore Roosevelt)
• Bob Koch - Biology and Management of Two New Insect Pests of Soybean - Soybean Gall Midge and Soybean Tentiform Leafminer
• Seth Naeve - Soybean Management for Increased Yields
• Dan Kaiser - Best Management Practices for Nitrogen Fertilizer Use - Part I
• Fabian Fernandez - Best Management Practices for Nitrogen Fertilizer Use - Part II

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Swine Extension

Search this blog, swine & u column: umn organic swine research update, what is organic.

• Pigs must be managed organically from the last third of gestation.
• Animals must be allowed year-round access to the outdoors except under specific conditions (i.e. inclement weather)
• Pigs must be raised on certified organic land meeting all organic crop production standards.
• Animals must be fed 100% certified organic feed, except for trace minerals and vitamins used to meet the animal’s nutritional requirements.
• Pigs must be managed without antibiotics, added growth hormones, mammalian or avian byproducts, or other prohibited feed ingredients (urea, manure or arsenic compounds).
• Bedding used in organic livestock must come from organically produced crops (i.e. straw or corn stalks).
• Access to outdoors
• Shelter with clean dry bedding
• Space for exercise
• Clean drinking water
• Direct sunlight

MEETING THE NEEDS OF PRODUCERS

• Manure Composting: Manure and swine bedding was amassed into compost piles in January, June, and November to learn what amount of time and temperature is required to inactivate worm eggs. This could be a manure-handling step which could neutralize eggs/larvae and reduce the parasite load on pasture or cropland where the manure is spread.
• Biofumigation: Brassicaceae is a family of plants which includes mustard, rapeseed, cress and many more. These plants contain a compound, glucosinolate, which, when the plant is chopped up, is transformed into isothiocyanate (ITC). ITC is toxic to bacteria, fungi and nematodes, and has promise as a killer of intestinal parasites in soil. The plants are mulched or pulverized with a flail mower at flowering, when the glucosinolate levels are high. The broken plants are then immediately incorporated into the soil for maximum ITC effectiveness.

PARASITES IN PASTURED PIGS

• Ascaris suum. Ascaris is known as roundworm and is a common parasite in pigs. A pig consumes the roundworm egg from the soil or pasture, after which it develops and hatches in the intestines. It can travel to the pig’s lungs or liver, and a common symptom of roundworm infection is that the pig has a cough.
• Tricuris spp. Tricuris is another familiar swine parasite commonly known as whipworm. The pig becomes infected with Tricuris by consuming eggs found in the environment. The worm hatches and grows within the pig and sheds eggs via feces. In adult pigs, this parasite causes decreased growth and thriftiness.
• Oesophagostomum spp. Oesophagostomum are a nematode which in swine are common nodular worms. These worms are generally consumed by the pig in the larval form.

RESULTS FROM THE PARASITE PROJECT

• Oesophagostomum: 56% farms infected
• Ascaris: 78% farms infected
• Tricuris: 44% farms infected
• Oesophagostomum: 60 - 70% pigs/sows infected
• Ascaris: 50% pigs infected
• Tricuris: 25% sows infected; 40% pigs infected
• Sows had higher load of Oesophagostamum than pigs
• 371 epg vs. 60 and 176 epg (eggs per gram)
• Pigs had heavy load of Ascaris
• 1,733 epg for feeder/growing pigs
• 1,198 epg for finishing pigs
• Trichuris was found in all stages
• Relative low level
• 55, 67, 79 epg (for sows, feeder/growing, and finishing pigs)

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Semester updates - Spring 2022

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Try a Library Research Guide

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Use the links below to reach current articles. Remember this is just a sample of what you have access to -- try the search box on our homepage lib.umn.edu to find more.  

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• Wall Street Journal (WSJ.COM) This link opens in a new window Get WSJ.com subscription through the library. Sign up for a personal account at the link above. Access to the articles, photographs, charts, podcasts, videos and other premium content available on the WSJ.COM website back to the 2010. Mobile app access is included in the subscription. more... less... Access available only for University of Minnesota Twin Cities students, faculty, and staff. No guest access available. Each user must set up a personal account to save articles, create alerts, download apps, and use other features. Once a personal account is created, you can access WSJ.COM from anywhere.
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• The Minnesota Daily The historical archive of the student newspaper for the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is available online in the UDC from 1900 to 2009. There is a full web archive of the MN Daily site , including video content, available from April 2019 to present, and 2014 to present copies are available on Issuu .
• Vogue Archive, 1892-current A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
• The New Yorker The New Yorker is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
• The Atlantic The Atlantic Monthly is a literary and cultural commentary magazine.

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Stressed out? Come de-stress and forget about your worries at PAWS! Monthly PAWS sessions at Wilson Library feature registered therapy animal teams—including dogs, chickens, and other domestic animals like cats and rabbits—that you are welcome to interact with and pet. No registration or fee- just show up and pet away.

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AI and Autonomy Leader from DoD Visits UMN

Josh Dorr, Engineering Director of Advanced Sensors and Microsystems, Honeywell; Faisal Kaleem, Professor, Computer Science and Cybersecurity, Metro State University; Graham Candler, Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, UMN; Surya Iyer, President and COO, Polar Semiconductor; Congresswoman Betty McCollum; Ted Christopher, Founder, Verterra Energy; Dr. Kimberly A. Sablon; Shashank Priya, Vice President for Research and Innovation, UMN; David Bustamante Director of Engineering, PAR Systems.

  On May 31, 2024, Dr. Kimberly Sablon, Principal Director for Trusted AI and Autonomy at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) visited the University of Minnesota. Dr. Sablon leads and coordinates scientific and technological efforts to ensure Department of Defense (DoD) superiority in future cognitive autonomous systems and hierarchical networks related to dynamic AI systems.

Dr. Sablon met with robotics and AI researchers, toured the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, and gave a lecture on her work titled “Trusted AI and Autonomy Roadmap - A holistic, system of  systems approach to development of resilient AI and autonomy.” She also met with local industries in the national security and automation space, including Innovative Design Labs, Emerging Concepts Laboratory, Anno.AI, and Lockheed Martin and participated in a roundtable with US Rep. Betty McCollum, ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, and leaders from Minnesota’s local high tech industry, including Polar Semiconductor, Metro State University, PAR Systems, Honeywell, and Verterra Energy. The discussions highlighted the growing national security enterprise in Minnesota.

At the roundtable, Dr. Sablon heard from leading hypersonics researcher, Prof. Graham Candler, about plans for new wind tunnel facilities to be built in Minnesota that will help advance aerospace flight capabilities, in addition to learning about local strengths in microelectronics, sensors and satellites, high-end manufacturing, renewable energy, and cybersecurity training. The roundtable discussion also highlighted the UMN efforts in building the research and innovation initiatives around these topical areas.

UMN researchers interested in learning more about potential DoD collaborations can reach out to the U’s national security research and innovation initiative at [email protected] or (612) 625-3394.

The visit was organized by the Research and Innovation Office to showcase Minnesota research and industry strengths, and to pave the way for future collaborations with OUSD(R&E).   

Fruit and Vegetable News

Search this blog, fruit update – june 5, 2024.

• Janssen, Bart & Thodey, Kate & Schaffer, Robert & Alba, Rob & Balakrishnan, Lena & Bishop, Rebecca & Bowen, Judith & Crowhurst, Ross & Gleave, Andrew & Ledger, Susan & McArtney, Steve & Pichler, Franz & Snowden, Kimberley & Ward, Shayna. (2008). Global gene expression analysis of apple fruit development from the floral bud to ripe fruit. BMC plant biology. 8. 16. 10.1186/1471-2229-8-16.
• Sutton, T.B., Aldwinckle, H.S., Agnello, A.M., and Walgenback, J.F. 2014. Compendium of Apple and Pear Diseases and Pests, Second Edition. APS Publications.

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NIH researchers never said there is no risk of CWD spillover to humans

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Some news stories on a recent  study finding a strong chronic wasting disease (CWD) species barrier between cervids such as deer and humans have concluded that there is no risk of a zoonotic spillover of the fatal prion disease.

But the study authors and other leading CWD and prion experts don't share that conviction.

"We think there's a low risk," senior study author Cathryn Haigh, PhD, Chief of the Prion Cell Biology Unit at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, told CIDRAP News. "We can't say no risk."

The research was published in Emerging Infectious Diseases  in mid-May.

[The finding] is encouraging in that it emphasizes that at least with current CWD strains, there is a high species barrier, but it certainly doesn't mean that it [spillover] isn't possible or that the threshold of the species barrier might not change in the future when CWD strains evolve.

Brian Appleby, MD

Brian Appleby, MD, director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University, said the study's conclusions are congruent with those from previous research but aren't the final answer to whether it can transmit to humans.

"They weren’t able to transmit chronic wasting disease to these human cerebral organoids, but that's not a human," he said. "And there are so many other factors that go into transmission outside of such experimental spaces. It is encouraging in that it emphasizes that at least with current CWD strains, there is a high species barrier, but it certainly doesn't mean that [spillover] isn't possible or that the threshold of the species barrier might not change in the future when CWD strains evolve."

Appleby is a cochair of a working group that is part of the  CWD Contingency Planning Project at the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), publisher of CIDRAP News. CIDRAP has issued a  statement saying that the study results haven't changed the urgent need for continued disease surveillance and preparation for a potential species jump.

Research used lab-grown tissues

Haigh believes the study was the first human organoid (lab-grown tissues that function similar to simplified versions of organs) CWD work, whereas previous research has used other models such as mice. "Organoids aren't manipulated to change the protein expression of the prion protein, and a lot of the mice proteins are deliberately manipulated to do that, so it's closer to a human brain environment than anything that's been done before."

To assess the ability of CWD prions to infect human brain tissue, Haigh and colleagues exposed human brain organoids to high concentrations of mixed brain tissues from CWD-infected white-tailed deer, mule deer, and elk for 1 week. The team then periodically tested the organoids for signs of infection for 180 days.

At the end of the experiment, there was no evidence of CWD replication or protein deposits from human prions. "Overall, the unsuccessful propagation of CWD in cerebral organoids supports a strong species barrier to transmission of CWD prions to humans," the authors concluded.

The CIDRAP statement on the study pointed out that, depending on host factors, interspecies CWD transmission often takes longer than 180 days. Haigh said that that endpoint was chosen based on her team's previous work on human prion infection. "We can detect it [human prion infection] pretty readily at 60 days, it's much stronger at 90, and then by 180, it's pretty strong," she said. "We don't really see it get much stronger after that but we haven't followed them a lot further out."

The organoids were made up of two of three known human prion genetic backgrounds, one of which was previously tied to susceptibility to animal-to-human prion disease. "The two genotypes we tested make up about 80 to 90% of the population," Haigh said, adding that they are now testing the third genotype. "We can't confirm that that one wouldn't take up infection yet."

Need for continued human, animal CWD surveillance, research

Appleby called for research looking at the transmission of CWD into farm animals and using models such as transgenic animals to see how it could alter the risk for humans. "Prion disease is not the same across all animals," he said. "It not only causes concern for cervids but also for other animals, production animals, for example, that could get into our food supply. Could they develop the disease and that might alter the species barrier to humans?"

Haigh said examining the structure of CWD prions and then modeling them to simulate their similarities and differences with the human prion protein could lead to a better understanding of their potential interactions.

Surveillance needs to remain really vigilant.

Cathryn Haigh, PhD

CIDRAP's statement recommends more research into prion diagnostic testing for non-cervid (eg, human) species and lab tests that could differentiate human prions from those from cervids or other animals. Comparisons of CWD prions used in experimental transmission studies to those with known zoonotic potential (eg, bovine spongiform encephalopathy [BSE], or "mad cow disease") and those not considered a human health risk (eg, scrapie, a prion disease of sheep and goats) are also warranted.

All agree that continued animal and human surveillance is critical. "If a new strain emerges that has a better capacity to convert to human prions, we would need to know where it is," Haigh said. "Surveillance needs to remain really vigilant."

Appleby said that continued preparation for a potential spillover is "absolutely" necessary, pointing to the United Kingdom's BSE epidemic in the 1990s. A variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) related to BSE began affecting people in the UK who ate the contaminated beef in 1996, with human cases peaking from 1999 to 2004. 

"The consensus, including many of the top-rated scientists of the time, was that there wasn't any risk of human transmission," he said. "We don't want to repeat that."

CWD, a neurologic disease caused by misfolded proteins called prions, affects cervids such as deer, elk, moose, and reindeer. The disease poses an ongoing threat to cervids, because it can spread from animal to animal and through environmental contamination. CWD cases have been identified in 34 US states, 5 Canadian provinces, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and South Korea.

Signs of the disease include weight loss, uncoordinated movement, listlessness, excessive thirst or urination, drooling, drooping ears, and behavioral changes.

While CWD isn't known to infect people, the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend against eating meat from infected animals and urge taking precautions when field-dressing or butchering cervids. 

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Tackling chronic wasting disease: A Q&A with the codirectors of the University of Minnesota's prion research center

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H5 influenza wastewater dashboard launches.

Though the test can't pinpoint the virus subtype or source, most of the detections are from states hard hit by H5N1 in dairy herds.

Alpacas infected with H5N1 avian flu in Idaho

In other developments, H5N1 was detected in feral cats in New Mexico and more dairy herds in affected states.

High-path avian flu strikes Iowa layer farm as USDA reports more mammal detections

The USDA's updated list of H5N1 detections in mammals includes domestic cats in 4 states.

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"A brief, seemingly innocuous or benign encounter with the virus can still lead to health problems years later," one study author says.

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The "duckbill" N95 stopped 98% of the virus that causes COVID-19, the authors say.

China reports fatal H5N6 avian flu case

An investigation found that the woman had been exposed to backyard poultry before she became ill. 

Report: More than 200 symptoms tied to long COVID

The report "offers a comprehensive review of the evidence base for how Long COVID may impact a patient's ability to engage in normal activities."

Report describes emerging sexually transmitted fungal infection

The infection is caused by Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII, a fungus that may spread via sexual contact.

Study: Truthful yet misleading Facebook posts drove COVID vaccine reluctance much more than outright lies did

Unflagged vaccine-skeptical content cut vaccination intent by 2.28 percentage points per user, versus −0.05 percentage points for flagged content.

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Unlike similar earlier cases in the United States, the newly reported patient had respiratory symptoms.

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Update on msom 2024 conference - detailed program, registration, and lodging, 1.  update on msom 2024 conference - detailed program, registration, and lodging.

Dear MSOM 2024 Conference Attendees: On behalf of the MSOM 2024 Conference Organizing Committee, we would like to share some important updates with you: (i) Conference Schedule:  We have an exciting lineup of research presentations and the conference schedule is now available on our website. Please visit the following link to access the detailed program:    https://msom2024.umn.edu/program .

(ii) Registration Reminder:  If you haven't already registered for the conference, please take a moment to do so now to help with catering plans. For presenters, your registration is essential to ensure your participation and inclusion in the conference program. Visit our registration page at  https://msom2024.umn.edu/register  to complete your registration.

(iii) Hotel Booking:  We strongly encourage you to book your hotel room as soon as possible to take advantage of the conference rate. Please note that conference rate rooms at the Graduate Hotel are now fully booked. However, there are still conference rate rooms available at the Courtyard by Marriott which offers complimentary roundtrip fares to and from campus for each day you are booked.  The conference rate at the Courtyard will be available until June 8 or until the conference block of rooms sells out (whichever is first). For more information on hotel options and booking, please visit our conference website:  https://msom2024.umn.edu/venues/hotel-lodging . Booking early will ensure you secure a convenient and comfortable stay during the conference.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at:  [email protected] . We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Best regards, MSOM 2024 Conference Organizing Committee

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