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Pete Meenen a person who i had the privilege to work with at the Breentwood Family YMCA located on concord rd, has sadly passed at the age of 73-years old due to contracting the COIVD-2019 virus. He was a respectful, kind, gentle man that enjoyed his job, working as a greeter at the YMCA. HeContinue reading “Co-worker at YMCA falls fatally to COVID-19”

The current pandemic caused by COVID-2019 is continuing to slow the world down with more & more cases everyday. The total confirmed cases has reached seven hundred thousand people world wide. Surgeon General of the United States, Jerome Adams, warns the public not to travel other than get to essential items. COVID-2019 is potentially upContinue reading “Hydroxychloroquine / Azithromycin vaccines for COVID-19”

How to collect insects Insect collection can be a hobby or a part of an entomology course. In my case, it was a part of an entomology course but with time it became a hobby. Insects can be collected for identification of already present or new species; this facilitates insect management for crops as wellContinue reading “How to prepare an insect box?”

Well, this was bound to happen. As many can take precautions, wash their hands and stay home, many workers in the United States cannot say the same. Sanderson Farms, one of the nation’s chicken producers, said on Monday, March 23, 2020, that one of their workers tested positive for COVID-19. Sanderson Farms, Inc. confirmed thatContinue reading “US Slaughterhouse Worker Tested Positive for COVID-19”

Hello everyone. My name is Pranav Vashisht and I’m a graduate student of Food Science. Today I’m going to tell you about the famous three-tier milk collection system that is followed by the Anand Milk Union Limited (AMUL), India which made this cooperative as the largest dairy cooperative of the country. This system was introducedContinue reading “Three Tier Milk Collection System”

In honor of Women’s History Month, I want to take a minute to talk about the women that have shaped American Agriculture and continue to do so today. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) women represent 43 percent of the world’s agricultural labor force. In developing countries, women make up 40 toContinue reading “Strength in numbers: Celebration of Women in Agriculture”

Most of food losses occur at the post harvest level. One of the main contributors of post harvest losses faced in Trinidad and Tobago is chilling injury. Chilling injury is what happens to some commodities of tropical origin held at the wrong storage or transit temperature, but a temperature above 32°F (0°C). Generally these areContinue reading “Chilling Injury”

Hello everyone. My name is Pranav Vashisht and I’m a graduate student of Food Science. Today I’m going to tell you about the cloned buffalo Garima and her daughter Mahima. India has a huge population of buffalo (around 56% of the world’s buffalo population) but still, the country is facing problems because most of theseContinue reading “Garima & Mahima: The two famous names in the world of clones”

Hi Friends! Today I have come up with a really interesting topic for you. Have you ever thought of using the fourth state of matter in the world in a beneficial way? Here we will discuss about how to excite atom to fourth stage and its applications. Plasma, the fourth state of atom is a partiallyContinue reading “Plasma”