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As dewormer medication use in sheep becomes less and less effective, new research at West Virginia University reveals livestock’s inherent ways of fighting off parasites.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – As a certified professional forester, West Virginia University alumnus Eugene Arthur Walters benefitted personally and professionally from traveling abroad, and he hopes to help students experience the same.   

Although it’s a common heat source for agricultural buildings, propane often creates a wet heat that exacerbates illness in poultry.

West Virginia University will launch several projects and programs designed to address challenges facing rural Appalachia – everything from small-scale farming to supporting the state’s aging population.

Sometimes discoveries are hidden in plain sight. Or under a decomposing log, as in the case of one West Virginia University forest pathologist and mycologist.

As invasive carp continue to pose ecological and economic threats to the Upper Mississippi River Basin, researchers at West Virginia University hope to uncover ways to minimize the species’ expansion.

The shortage of natural pollinators, such as bees, is threatening global food production around the world, making it difficult to feed an ever-growing human population. Researchers at West Virginia University have come up with a plan B to this decline in pollinators by creating a robotic pollinator.