by Jacqueline Kochak | Aug 21, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Public Health, Tariffs, The Future, Weather Emergencies
Seizure of white farms begins: The first salvos of what will be a very ugly campaign commenced with the seizures of two white-owned farms in South Africa. In both cases, the below-market-value buy-out offers were refused. Violence has been escalating over the last...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Mar 7, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Food Industry Technology, Food Safety, Food Security, Food Technology, Public Health, Terrorism, The Future, Uncategorized
A very complex agricultural landscape: It’s hard to understate California’s agricultural significance: On just 1.2 percent of U.S. farmland, California produces more than a third of the country’s vegetables and about two-thirds of its fruits and...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Aug 30, 2017 | Animal Feed Safety, Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Emergency Response, Food Safety, Food Security, Public Health, Water Safety
Dirty floodwaters can lead to public health disasters: In the coming weeks and even months, residents of Houston and other parts of southern Texas hit hard by Hurricane Harvey will be faced with the public health disasters that can result from dirty floodwater and...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Mar 10, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Process Security, Public Health, Uncategorized
Three AI cases confirmed this week: Three cases of avian influence (AI) this week at U.S. poultry farms have raised the specter of the 2015 AI outbreak that USDA calls the largest animal health emergency in U.S. history. The 2015 outbreak led to nearly 50 million...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Mar 9, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Process Security, Public Health, Uncategorized
If potatoes can grow on Mars, they can grow anywhere: The International Potato Center (CIP) has launched a series of experiments to discover if potatoes can grow under the atmospheric conditions prevalent on the planet Mars as well as in extreme climates on...
