Every week, hundreds of millions of New World screwworm flies are dropped from planes over Panama. It might sound like a scene from an apocalyptic movie, or maybe a biblical plague, with insects ...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2013 – Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Administrator Edward Knipling retires today from the USDA agency after nine years at its head. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ...
Edward F. Knipling and Raymond C. Bushland will be posthumously honored later this year for their study of the "sex life of the screwworm fly." The U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded work led to a ...
Last week, I wrote about the pork industry's obstinate attitude towards antibiotic use on farms, citing a Dow Jones newswire story -- later picked up by the WSJ -- entitled "Hog Farmers Overuse ...
Over the past 70 years, the U.S. has been waging a war against a miniature menace: the New World screwworm. The story of how we eradicated the critter has it all: triumph of the little guys, a medical ...
Clockwise from top left: Bushland (left) and Knipling (right) receiving Hoblitzelle National Award for Agriculture; Knipling receiving National Medal of Science from President Johnson; Raymond C.
Over the past 70 years, the U.S. has been waging a war against a miniature menace: the New World screwworm. The story of how we eradicated the critter has it all: triumph of the little guys, a medical ...
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