Hairgrove said even though they identified the cause, the goal of finding the answer to one question kept the project alive over the many years: How can I select against it? From 2016 until 2023, Petersen’s lab worked on locating the mutation for this condition. It was found in the…

A recent survey conducted by the Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers at the 2024 Iowa FFA Leadership Conference shows that 70 percent of students would like to farm in the future but continue to have concerns about high start-up costs. Of the 191 members who completed the survey, now in…

Discover Dairy’s “Adopt a Cow” program opened for enrollment for the 2023-24 school year on May 1. The free program, which impacted 1.2 million students worldwide last year, is a year-long, interactive learning opportunity that gives students an inside look at a dairy farm in the United States. Students participate…

Ever wondered how nature and human ingenuity can go hand in hand for building the perfect harmony in a destination? Mattupetty Dam Munnar also known as ‘Cattle village’ does just that and more. It is also known as the biggest dam in Kerala. This man-made dam stands in the heart…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a lawsuit against Agridime LLC, accusing the company of running a $161 million Ponzi scheme. According to Law360, on May 10, 2024, the CFTC submitted a complaint to the Texas Northern District Court against Agridime and its co-founders, Joshua Link and Jed Wood.…

Richard Slayman, the world’s first recipient of a transplanted, genetically engineered pig kidney, has passed away.  Slayman received the transplant during surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital on March 16, receiving a pig kidney with 69 genomic edits.  According to WCVB5, the 62-year-old said that he was leaving the hospital,…