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Not long after aflatoxin was discovered and methods were developed for analyzing commodities for contamination levels, researchers and the industry quickly realized there was a problem. “I would get a call from the industry explaining that they had tested the same lot three times and gotten 0, 0 and 100 parts per billion (ppb). What’s…
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As part of the Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program, two visiting researchers are working to ensure the safety the peanut crop in Africa with the help of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The college’s Office of Global Programs hosted the researchers, Agnes Mwangwela from Malawi…
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Virginia Tech has won a new $18 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for a research program that will work to raise the standard of living of people around the world through environmentally sound agricultural practices as part of Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security…
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The University of Georgia Tifton Campus will be the center for all-things peanuts for growers and industry personnel on Thursday, Jan. 15, when the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center hosts the annual Georgia Peanut Farm Show. Held at the conference center for the third consecutive year, the show is designed to inform and educate farmers…
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Legume Scholars Program Launched Submissions Due By December 19, 2014 By 2050 the world will need to feed two billion additional people. A challenge this serious requires the best and brightest ideas in agricultural science. Want to help feed the future? Consider applying for a Graduate Fellowship from the Legume Scholars Program. Announcing a new…
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Over 100 international scientists and stakeholders attended the 7th International Conference on Advances in Arachis though Genomics and Biotechnology (AAGB) last week, November 11-14, in Savannah, Georgia USA—including a large contingent of collaborators from the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab. The AAGB conference, first held in Guangzhou, China in 2006, brings together a diverse group…
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Abdi Mohammed Hassen is a short-term Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL) trainee working with PMIL Lead Scientist Renee Arias at the United States Department of Agriculture National Peanut Research Laboratory (USDA NPL) in Dawson, Georgia. Abdi worked with Arias from August 5th until October 27th of 2014. He has returned home to complete his PhD…
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