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Every day, producers work hard to protect their crops from threats they can see – drought, pests, diseases, weeds. But some of the biggest risks are the ones that arrive quietly,
often unnoticed, until the damage is done.
Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)
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Foot-and-Mouth Disease is caused by the Foot-and-Mouth disease (FMD) virus, an aphthovirus. Seven distinct serotypes occur (A, O, C, S.A.T.1, S.A.T.2, S.A.T.3, Asia 1), each with several subtypes.
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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals like cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs.
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Diseases such as avian flu trigger the culling of millions of birds each year. But that need not be the case for much longer.
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Researchers have developed a new technique to extract tiny cellulose strands from cow dung and turn them into manufacturing-grade cellulose
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It begins, as it often does, with the quiet. A misty dawn, the low murmur of hooves on hay.
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