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At the 97th @NCFFA State Convention last week, NC State Chancellor Kevin Howell and CALS Dean Garey Fox spoke to over 4,000 FFA members and advisors about the impact of the organization.
The high school agricultural education program, based within CALS, helps shape future agricultural leaders and innovators. The annual three-day state convention is the culmination of the high school students’ efforts for the academic year – recognizing their contributions and achievements and the innovative teachers supporting them.
“As chancellor, I`m proud that North Carolina FFA calls NC State home. I`m proud of our enriching land-grant institution and how we strengthen the commitment to the state`s agricultural community. We are firm believers in the idea that when we invest in young people, we invest in the future of our great state," said Howell.
The FFA state officers recognized both Howell and Fox for their advocacy for agricultural education and presented Fox with a new blue corduroy FFA jacket with “Godley, Texas,” embroidered on the back, in honor of his FFA roots.
Learn more about the convention and the impact of North Carolina FFA at the link in our bio.
The Carolina Hurricanes brought the Stanley Cup home. 🏒🏆 Our food safety expert explains what happens when thousands celebrate with hockey`s most famous trophy.
@AHSNCState Department Head Ben Chapman is a professor and director of @SafePlatesFSIC (and, of course, an avid Canes fan).
The reemergence of the New World screwworm in the United States has put the livestock industry on high alert. 🪰 To explain the parasite and the technique used to fight it, we talked to one of the world’s premier New World screwworm experts — NC State entomologist Maxwell Scott.
The New World screwworm is a flesh-eating parasite that targets living mammals, laying eggs in open wounds that can quickly turn fatal if left untreated. For decades, populations have successfully been controlled with the sterile insect technique — the release of sterilized males to mate with wild females, which prevents them from reproducing.
The recent identification of the parasite in Texas and New Mexico requires advanced biological solutions, and through U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded research, Scott and his team have developed a male-only line of sterile screwworms that’s now under review with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the name NovoFly.
The male-only strain developed by his lab carries a gene that is lethal to females but is repressed by adding tetracycline to the diet. This allows mass-rearing facilities to efficiently expand populations and produce only sterile males for release by removing tetracycline from the final generation’s diet. Scott’s newest research will focus on the use of new CRISPR-based methods for producing sterile males.
Check out the link in our bio to learn more about the NC State research going on in Scott’s lab to suppress the New World screwworm population.
