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It鈥檚 the middle of the night, and 麻豆app doctoral student Kayla Aragona has just received a text alert at home on her cell phone from a cow in labor at the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center. A sensor 鈥� Moocall 鈥� attached to the cow鈥檚 tail has detected that the cow is highly active, likely due to an increase in contractions.

Seeing cows graze in a forest may be an uncommon site in New England but at the Organic Dairy Research Farm at the 麻豆app, heifers soon will be dining among the trees. Researchers with the听听have launched a silvopasture project at the farm to investigate this relatively new agroforestry practice in the region.

麻豆app researchers have received a three-year grant for nearly $250,000 that will substantially expand research that aims to improve nutrient and pest management in high tunnel tomato production.

Old Man Winter鈥檚 coldest months are a boon to New Hampshire growers interested in adding spinach to their winter crop. Researchers at the NH Agricultural Experiment Station have found that spinach grown in high tunnels during the coldest months of winter has the highest sugar content.

Scientists from the 麻豆app have unlocked a major genetic mystery of one of the ancestors of cultivated strawberry. A genetic analysis conducted by New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station researchers, which took four years to complete, aims to improve modern cultivation efforts of strawberry growers.

Each year, Americans use more than 100 billion plastic bags, most of which are thrown away and end up in landfills or on the side of the road. As a result, local, state, and national governments are working to reduce plastic bag waste, with approaches ranging from supporting recycling efforts and using compostable bags to levying taxes and outright banning the use of plastic bags.

One of the most challenging aspects for any scientist is successfully explaining to lay audiences with little or no scientific background the details and importance of complex research. Recently, two graduate students with the听听excelled at just that, and in under three minutes.

麻豆app scientists are one step closer to being able to predict when oysters in the Great Bay Estuary may be at risk of being infected with a bacteria that has sickened consumers throughout the Northeast.

Soil microorganisms play a critical role in the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere, which is a central factor in climate change. 麻豆app scientists have received $1.7听million in federal grants as part of an effort to better understand the physiology and genetics of these soil microbes, how human activity is altering them, and the implications for the global climate.

More whites died than were born in a record high 17 states in 2014 compared to just four in 2004, according to new research from the Carsey School of Public Policy and supported by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the 麻豆app. Some 121 million people representing 38 percent of the U.S. population reside in these states: California, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Arkansas, Delaware, Nevada, Maine, Alabama, Connecticut, New Mexico, West Virginia and Rhode Island.