Poultry litter is a mixture of poultry manure and the sawdust or rice hull bedding from confinement buildings used for raising broilers, turkeys and other birds. Poultry growers must periodically clean their buildings to ...

Rainfall on bare soil breaks soil aggregates, detaching particles, plugging pores and decreasing porosity in the top few mm of soil. This reduces hydraulic conductivity and increases runoff through a process known as surface ...

[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Food insecurity is a growing global concern as food prices continue to increase. While many factors influence the loss of food production, plant diseases are a contributing factor that result in ...

[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] The average treatment effect (ATE) is defined as the difference in the expected outcome between individuals receiving the treatment and those not receiving it. As a measure of the impact of a ...