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MSU Bug Club is drawing attention to the fascinating world of insects

Published on January 17, 2022
A group of undergraduate students at MSU are building a community centered around their passion for arthropods.
In a Dog Eat Dog World, Are Regulations Strong Enough to Protect Your Pup?

Published on January 17, 2022
In Canada, there is no pet food nutrient composition enforcement for dog and cat foods. DeAngelo and Haskell review how US and Canadian regulations differ, and why pet parents should be wary of imports.
The ‘other side’ of Amazon forest drought: Could Amazon forest’s shallow water table areas act as climate change ‘refugia’?

Published on January 17, 2022
New findings published by Michigan State University (MSU) Researchers examine how climate change shapes the future of the world’s largest rainforest and the impacts drought has on the forest growing on various soil water and water table conditions.
MSU leads study exploring the viability of using indoor farming to grow leafy greens

Published on January 17, 2022
A multi-university team of horticulturists, engineers and agricultural economists led by MSU is using a $2.7 million grant from the USDA to study indoor production of leafy greens.
Weed Genomes Cropping up at PSM

Published on January 17, 2022
PSM's Dr. Eric Patterson along with colleagues at MSU, Colorado State University, and industry partners have launched the International Weed Genomics Consortium, a program to sequence, annotate and publish genomes for up to 30 common weed species.
What’s on the menu for 2022? Covid-19? Listeria? Salmonella? E. coli?

Published on January 15, 2022
The year 2021 was a long year, not just for Covid-19, but also for listeria outbreaks in the US. Haskell and DeAngelo review the regulations currently in place to help control listeria outbreaks.
Professor Melinda Smale Named Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)

Published on January 14, 2022
AFRE's Melinda Smale Receives AAEA's Highest Professional Honor
Compost handling in agriculture systems: Disease-suppressing and growth-promoting composts

Published on January 14, 2022
Part two of a six-part series on compost utilization and management on farms.
Weekly Beet - January 14, 2022

Published on January 14, 2022
In this weeks issue. Notices of Scholarship Award Winners. PSM Staffing hours update. Various seminar announcements.
New MSU research details lake trout reproductive response to sea lamprey parasitism

Published on January 13, 2022
Two recently published papers examine how life history determines reproductive response of Michigan lake trout to sea lamprey attacks, as well as identifying a biomarker to more accurately quantify parasitism rates.