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A noxious weed, harmful weed or injurious weed is a weed that has been designated by an agricultural or other governing authority as a plant that is harmful to agricultural or horticultural crops, natural habitats or ecosystems, or humans or livestock. Most noxious weeds have been introduced into an ecosystem by ignorance, mismanagement, or ...
Goatsrue is a noxious weed that has a low distribution in Washington, but is on Washington’s quarantine list due to its fatal symptoms. If any part of the weed is ingested it can be fatal, and ...
E. plantagineum contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, so is poisonous to nonruminants. [10] [11] When eaten in large quantities, it causes reduced livestock weight, and death in severe cases, due to liver damage. [7] Paterson's curse can also kill horses, [12] and irritate the udders of dairy cows and the skin of humans.
Infectious bursal disease (IBD), also known as Gumboro disease, infectious bursitis, and infectious avian nephrosis, is a highly contagious disease of young chickens and turkeys caused by infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV), [1] characterized by immunosuppression and mortality generally at 3 to 6 weeks of age.
In one case last year, 5 million chickens were slaughtered on a single Iowa egg farm. Nebraska comes next with more than 6.7 million birds killed, followed by Colorado's 6.26 million and Minnesota ...
Even after 940,000 chickens on the Minnesota farm are slaughtered, there will only have been about 3.4 million birds killed this year. Minnesota has now lost a total of more than 5.5 million birds ...
Animal agriculture is a cause of harmful particulate matter pollution in the atmosphere. This type of production chain produces byproducts; endotoxin, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and particulate matter (PM), such as dust, [60] [61] all of which can negatively impact human respiratory health. [62]
Over the course of the past month, between 17 and 20 million turkeys and chickens in the U.S. have been infected with the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, and that could ...