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Delaying the Inevitable? U.S. Screwworm Closures and Feeder Cattle Market Dynamics

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biosecurity trade restrictions are commonly framed as preventive measures, yet in many settings they function primarily as policies of delay: they impose immediate market costs while only postponing the arrival of biological risks. This paper evaluates that intertemporal tradeoff using the 2024–2025 US suspension of live cattle imports from ...
Shelby Sumner, Savannah Jones, Tania Islam, K. Aleks Schaefer   +3 more
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Integrating Perennial Groundcover in Corn and Soybean Acres: Impacts on U.S. Agriculture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable agricultural practices such as cover cropping can improve soil health, water quality, and carbon sequestration, yet U.S. adoption remains limited due to economic and operational barriers. We evaluate market and economic impacts of integrating perennial groundcover into U.S.
Sagar Dahal, Amani Elobeid, John Crespi
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Notes from the Field: Fatal Pneumonic Plague - Coconino County, Arizona, July 2025. [PDF]

MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Wang CA, Hojnacki J, Jaramillo S, Qasmieh S, Ruberto I, Platt L, Patton S, Adame G, Francis D, Marx G, Brady S, Komatsu KK, Burr K, Terriquez J.   +13 more
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Assessing Government Subsidies for Reducing Pesticide Use: A Meta‐Analysis

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the efforts being made by governments to reduce pesticide use, subsidies are an important instrument to encourage farmers to adopt more sustainable practices. Yet, their effectiveness remains uncertain due to diverse designs and contexts.
Gaëlle Leduc, Douadia Bougherara, Thi Thanh Mai Ha, Laure Latruffe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facts about pneumonic plague [Spanish]

Facts about pneumonic plague [Spanish]Esta peste es una enfermedad infecciosa que afecta tanto a animales como a seres humanos. Es causada por la bacteria Yersinia pestis, que se encuentra en los roedores y sus pulgas, en muchas partes del mundo, incluso

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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study on Tibetan sheep in the Gansu plague-endemic area and the risk of plague transmission by their vectors. [PDF]

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An W, He A, Ma G, Chun H, Aoer G, Wang D, Gan R, Wang G, Xi J, Wang H, Zhang C, Huang Y, Caoge B, Zhao C, Xu D.   +14 more
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Agronomic and Nutritional Perspectives on Vegetable Crops in Africa

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Vegetable production plays a key role in food security, nutrition, and livelihoods across Africa. Moreover, African indigenous vegetables emerge as underutilized yet highly valuable crops, rich in macro‐ and micronutrients, as well as bioactive compounds with an array of health benefits.
Đorđe Vojnović, Pamela Owusu Osei, Sina Siavash Moghaddam, Issiake Konate, Jelena Popović‐Đorđević   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Keller M, Guellil M, Slavin P, Saag L, Irdt K, Kabral H, Solnik A, Malve M, Valk H, Kriiska A, Cessford C, Inskip SA, Robb JE, Cooper C, von Planta C, Seifert M, Reitmaier T, Baetsen WA, Walker D, Lösch S, Szidat S, Metspalu M, Kivisild T, Tambets K, Scheib CL.   +24 more
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Plague surveys by state health departments

Although the U. S. Public Health Service deserves a large share of the credit for initiating and maintaining surveys in the search for wild rodent plague foci, it has not been responsible for all of the field or laboratory accomplishments in this country.

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