The Purdue Women in Agriculture Team is excited to offer this annual event designed to educate and uplift women involved in any aspect of the agricultural industry. Through pre-conference workshops, a ...

Community engagement is imperative for sharing knowledge about animal sciences. General awareness and education of animal production needs to be communicated to the public. This could be achieved by ...

The Dominican Republic is known for fruit and vegetables production. While fruit and vegetable exports contribute significantly the DR GDP, these products are consumed widely throughout the country.

Welcome to Purdue’s home for basic plant biology! The CPB community connects faculty, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the plant sciences across different departments and ...

This database consists of applied research and extension programming updates from Purdue Animal Sciences Faculty. Use the filter tool to search by species, the columns to sort by header titles, or ...

Ducks have 19 distinctly different types of vocalizations based upon environmental and social context and these vocalizations have differential impacts on conspecific physiological responses. We wish ...

The purpose of our study was to evaluate the effects of maternal exposure to heat stress (HS) on post-hatch performance, response to an ACTH challenge, welfare, and behavior of the offspring. To ...

When birds are exposed to a stressor and are unable to maintain homeostasis, the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis is up regulated to respond to stress. The HPA is a hormonal pathway from ...

Pakistan is the 11th largest producer of poultry in the word. These products provide a high-quality and affordable source of proteins to communities throughout the country, many of which are ...

Foodborne diseases are global concerns, but low and medium-income countries are believed to be disproportionately affected. Foodborne diseases (e.g., salmonellosis, campylobacterosis, etc.), by ...

As an adaptation to the start of lactation, dairy cows mobilize tissue reserves, primarily muscle and fat. It is not well documented when in lactation, cows start to gain these reserves back to ...

The Department of Animal Sciences is engaging the community through education programs and having a presence at the Farm at Prophetstown. Increase visibility within the community and increase the ...