Buffalo Farming Articles
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Worst Water Weeds #5: Water Chestnut
With this article, we get back to exploring invasive exotic species, and this time it’s the water chestnut or water caltrop (Trapa natans), not to be confused with the Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) that you can buy in cans in grocery stores and used in Western-style Chinese food. The water chestnut is a floating annual aquatic plant native to the warm temperate areas of Eurasia ...
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Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia (TMMWV) Buffalo, West Virginia - Case Study
Background The Toyota manufacturing facility in West Virginia was established in 1996 and manufactures 4-cylinder and V6 engines, five-speed automatic transmissions and automatic transmission gears. This plant has an annual capacity of more than 550,000 engines and 600,000 automatic transmissions and regularly participates in Toyota’s internal water audits. The ultimate goal is to reduce, ...
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SomaDetect Integration: Platform
SomaDetect is a precision dairy technology company milk quality and dairy data company with offices in Fredericton, NB, Buffalo, NY and Thorold, ON. SomaDetect has designed and produced an in-line sensor that measures critical dairy-quality indicators from every cow at every milking. SomaDetect’s technology uses no consumables, chemicals, or cartridges, and with no lost milk. ...
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From the American prairie, a conservation success story
From rhinos to #CecilTheLion, we live in a world where stories of species loss and illegal wildlife trade dominate the conservation headlines, so a good news story every now and then is a welcome surprise. Three years ago, 63 bison originally from Yellowstone National Park left a quarantine facility just outside the park’s boundary where they were being monitored for brucellosis and made ...
By Ensia
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Spiders – the creepy crawlers we need
There are plenty of creepy, crawly pests in the world, but spiders seem to take the top spot for the most terror-inducing specimens. Although your first instinct when you see one of these eight-legged creatures scuttling around is to stomp on it, you might want to reconsider. The population of spiders is on the decline, and that poses some serious problems for their biggest threat- humans. ...
By Bird-X Inc.
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Milk of sheep, goat, and buffalo: a public health review
The objective is to integrate nutritional, technological, and human health characteristics of milk from sheep, goat and buffalo as viable substitute for cow milk. Ewe milk is much richer than cow milk in riboflavin, thiamine, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and biotin. Compared to cow milk, goat milk has minor s1casein, carotene, agglutinin; and is lower in citric acid, Na, ...
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Differentiation of meat species by means of Polymerase Chain Reaction technique
The present study was designed to investigate the efficiency of random amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) technique in differentiating meat species viz cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and chicken. Different random primers were screened with DNA extracted from meat samples of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and chicken. Characteristic species-specific bands of ...
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