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By Ruth Wiechmann for Tri-State Livestock News
It was originally touted to be the best of boons for the environment: when E-3 Biofuels planned to open an ethanol plant at Mead, Nebraska, it boasted the intent to be the only “full circle” energy system in existence. Methane produced by anaerobic digesters using manure from the associated 30,000 head feedlot, Mead Cattle Company, would power the plant, wet distillers grain made from local corn would feed the cattle in the feedlot. Local farmers could sell their corn directly and everyone would be happy.
But a February 12, 2021 spill of around four million gallons of wastewater, likely contaminated with high levels of pesticides and fungicides brought national attention to a situation at the ethanol plant, now known as AltEn.
Published 14 May 2021
The University of Nebraska has launched a 5-year project to help safeguard the U.S. food supply. The project will address agricultural and natural resources security, defense, and countermeasures; biological defense in support of the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and other government stakeholders; development and deployment of biosurveillance, biodetection and diagnostic tools; and pandemic preparedness related to human, livestock and crop plant diseases that could result in disruptions to the U.S. and global food systems.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska will begin a five-year partnership to help safeguard the U.S. food supply.
Loss of Smell: Is It Seasonal Allergies or Covid-19? Karla Walsh
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What are seasonal allergies, exactly?
Is a pack of tissues and antihistamines as essential as your phone and keys? You re not alone. About 8 percent of Americans have been diagnosed with hay fever (allergic rhinitis or seasonal allergies) in the past 12 months, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
So why are the nose, eyes, and throat of so many of us hijacked by seasonal allergy symptoms? People with allergies have an overactive immune system, explains Payel Gupta, MD, assistant clinical professor at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York and SUNY Downstate Medical Center.