Catfish Studies Grilled catfish with strawberry salsa. Image courtesy of The Catfish Institute. Catfish Genetic Secrets Sought America loves catfish! In fact, it’s the fourth most frequently eaten fish in the United States. And, it’s the star of ongoing studies by ARS scientists with the Catfish Genetics Research Unit, Stoneville, Miss., and their university colleagues. These investigators are intent…

Blackstrap Molasses Impacted Groundwater Clean Up Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable Technology Cost and Performance Enhanced In situ Biotransformation at the Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Dallas, TexasSite Name:Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant (NWIRP) Period of Operation: CleanupOctober 1999 – September 2000 Injection of diluted raw blackstrap molasses into impacted groundwater bearing zones 2 injection wells, one in the upper  (12 ft…

For the TOFGA/USDA Organic Field Day, Lamkin, Texas, June 20, 2008.  The presentation will skip back and forth from Section I and section II.  Since we are outside, we cannot use a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.  If indoors, section II would be the PowerPoint slides.    Location: Sonny and Noreen Gebert Orchard                                    …

  Carbaryl “May cause Birth Defects” “Women of Childbearing age Should Not Be involved in the Mixing, Loading or application or Carbaryl.  In two experiments, one of them conducted by Union Carbine, pregnant dogs were administered carbaryl at doses ranging from 3 t- 50 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day throughout the gestation period.  In the first experiment,…

  Carbaryl / Sevin “Women of Childbearing age Should Not Be involved in the Mixing, Loading or application or Carbaryl.  In two experiments, one of them conducted by Union Carbine, pregnant dogs were administered carbaryl at doses ranging from 3 t- 50 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day throughout the gestation period.  In the first experiment, birth defects…

  Benzene in Drinks On February 24 and February 27, 2006, EWG ( Environment Working Group) purchased the following drinks at four major retail outlets in Washington, DC. They all contained ascorbic acid and either sodium benzoate or potassium benzoate—the ingredients that the FDA and the beverage industry have said can mix together to form benzene, a known human carcinogen.…

Bee Decline Report Report notes many reasons for bee decline U.S. Department of Agriculture | May 6, 2013 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday released a comprehensive scientific report on honey bee health. The report states that there are multiple factors playing a role in honey bee colony declines, including parasites and…

  Baking Soda Baking soda is one of the first alternative products that had university research. Most organic products are available now and the toxic chemicals simply are never needed. They don’t work well anyway. The research done on baking soda is from Cornell University. Dr. Kenneth Horst and his staff discovered that baking soda mixed with water and sprayed…