Rapid Agricultural Response Fund 2008-2009 Projects
| Project Leader | Project Title |
|---|---|
Christian Thill | Early Generation Selecting Strategies to Reduce Potato Virus Y (PVY) Incidence Earlier in Breeding |
| Assessment and Management of Sudden Death Syndrome of Soybeans, an Emerging Disease in Minnesota | |
| Simone Oliveira | Surveillance of Highly Virulent Haemophilus parasuis Strains affecting North American Swine Herds using Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) |
| Stan Hokanson | Diversifying Minnesota’s Biofuel Feedstocks: An Evaluation of Nitrogen-fixing Woody Plant Germplasm |
| Bill Hutchinson | Reducing the Risk of Corn Rootworm Damage to Sweet Corn: Exploiting Planting Date and New Monitoring Tools |
| Sagar Goyal | Etiology and Pathogenesis of the New "Poult Enteritis Syndrome" |
| Evaluating Animal Performance and Welfare in Two New Dairy Housing Options in the Upper Midwest | |
Scott Dee | Investigating Complex Swine Diseases Using a Model of a Swine Production Region |
| Eric Watkins | Reducing Economic Loss Caused by Stem and Crown Rust in Perennial Ryegrass |
| Marla Spivak | Maintaining the Vitality of Bee Pollinators and the Honey Producing Industry in Minnesota (Renewal) |
| Sally Noll | Utilization of Byproducts from the Biofuels Industry as Feed Ingredients for Commercial Turkey Production |
| Andrew David | Conservation of Minnesota’s Ash Genetic Resources in Response to Emerald Ash Borer |
| Jeffrey A. Davis | Using Marker Assisted Selection to Accelerate Development of Potato Cultivators That Pyramid Novel Sourses of Aphid, Virus and Late Blight Resistence |
| David Ragsdale | Incorporating Natural Enemies into the Economic Thresholds for Soybean Aphid |
| Ken Ostlie | Corn Rootworms: Adaptation, Risk & Transgenic Corn |
| Kakambi Nagaraja | Cellulitis in Turkeys: Pathogenesis and its Control using an Inactivated Vaccine |
| Larry Jacobson | Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Measurements to Existing Dairy and Turkey Barn Gas Monitoring Projects |
| Scott Wells | Reducing Interactions between Cattle and White-tailed Deer in Northern Minnesota |
| Brian Buhr | Special RARF 2008-2009 Bovine TB Funding: Economic Impact of Bovine Tuberculosis on the Minnesota Cattle Industry |
Special RARF 2008-2009 Bovine TB Funding: Assessment of the Value of Spayed Heifers for Marketing | |
| Alfredo DiCostanzo | Special RARF 2008-2009 Bovine TB Funding: Managing Feed Intake in Beef Cattle Herds to Reduce TB Transmission Risk |
| Timothy Goldsmith | Special RARF 2008-2009 Bovine TB Funding: Assessment of Bovine TB Diagnostic Testing Strategies |
| Ryon Walker | Special RARF 2008-2009 Bovine TB Funding: Education and Extension Activities Related to the Bovine TB Initiative |
| Scott Wells | Special RARF 2008-2009 Bovine TB Funding: Qualitative Risk Assessment of Bovine TB in Northern Minnesota |
| Scott Wells | Special RARF 2008-2009 Bovine TB Funding: Use of Electrified Fencing to Mitigate Cattle-Deer Interactions on Minnesota Cattle Farms |
| James A. Anderson | Breeding Wheat Varieties Resistant to the Ug99 Race of Stem rust |
| Kevin A. Janni | Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and disease transmission form animal facilities with gas-phase biofilters |
| Lee J. Johnston | Moving Pork Producers to socially acceptable sow housing: Transition from Gestation Stall to Group-Housing |
| Srinand Sreevatsan | Population Genetic Frameworks of Mycobacterium bovis and Their Correlation with Virulence and Environmental Survival |
| Developing Critical Technology for Managing the Emerging Virulent Populations of the Soybean Cyst Nematode | |
| Marcia Endres | Evaluating Utilization of Recycled Manure Solids as Bedding Material for Freestall Dairy Barns in the Upper Midwest |
| Kevin A. Janni | Emissions Mitigation Techniques for Sand-Bedded Dairies |
| Srinand Sreevatsan | Development and Evaluation of a Universal Swine/Avian Influenza Vaccine |
| James Collins | Preparing Minnesota for the Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus in Fish |
| Francisco Diez-Gonzalez | Effect of Feeding Distiller’s Grain on Escherichia coli 0157:H7 Prevalence in Feedlot Cattle |
| Bill Hutchinson | Univoltine European Corn Borer in Southern Minnesota Sweet Corn: Impact, Research and Response to an Expanding Ecotype |
| Sally Noll | Do Feed Ingredients Affect Gut Microbial Pathogens and Thus Indirectly Impact Poultry Health and Meat Safety? |
| Devi Patnayak | The Role of Astrovirus and Other Enteric Viruses in Poult Enteritis Syndrome |
| Jun Zhu | Co-digesting the Wasted Milk from Dairy Operations with Cattle Slurry to Reduce Water Pollution |
