Livestock

July 18, 2009

Connecting through food

In Bittersweet, a new column on GlobalPost, Matt McAllester writes about how food connects us and the people who cook it to faraway lands.

Last month he went looking for wild boar meat in Baghdad. Obviously like to set himself ambitious targets, our Matt. Anyway, well worth a read. Unfortunately you can’t subscribe to his stuff alone, but GlobalPost is an excellent general news site.

July 17, 2009July 17, 2009

Nibbles: Cheese, Dog genetics, Olives on Crete, Polyploidy, Pollination

Making French cheese in the Himalayas.
The latest on how to build your perfect dog.
“The scientists are putting the all the trees which must be saved into a data bank.” Clever scientists.
Polyploidization so, so much more than merely the sum of genomes.
“The expected direct reduction in total agricultural production in the absence of animal pollination ranged from 3 to 8%…” Thank goodness for Operation Pollinator, eh?

July 15, 2009July 28, 2009

Nibbles: India, City chicks, Rooftop gardens, Black cherry, Prairie grasses, Oryza SNP

ICRISAT recommends diversity to cope with climate change in India.
US urban farmers “mad as wet hens“. City chicks?
US urban farmers with a view to die for.
CWR becomes nuisance when free of soil pathogen.
Convicts help with germplasm regeneration and multiplication.
The “gold-standard set of curated polymorphisms” for rice.

July 11, 2009July 11, 2009

Tame rabbits

July 11, 2009July 11, 2009

Livestock genetics symposium online

DAD-Net informs us that the presentations given at the symposium on Statistical Genetics of Livestock for the Post-Genomic Era, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, on May 4-6, 2009, are now available online in the form of both PDFs and videos. Quite a resource.