For Kentucky, this has struck hardest at the breeding sector, on which most of the 100,000 industry-related jobs depend.
The variables - region of the herd, size of the herd, source of semen, rodents control, number of pigs per pen, age of breeding sows, breeding sector room, source of feed and use of antibiotics - were selected to enter the multivariable model.
For the category "other serotypes" the significant associations found were: control of rodents, region of the country, source of semen, breeding sector room and source of feed.
The Dutch sheep population consists of a breeding sector with three large pure breeds (Texel, Swifter and Zwartbles), more than 30 smaller breeds, and a production sector dominated by Texel and Swifter sheep.
The private wheat breeding sector in Brazil emerged as researchers were leaving the public sector.
Beef CRC PE were derived for the commercial animal breeding sector.
Recent outbreaks of avian influenza (H5N1) have had a huge economic effect in the poultry breeding sector [ 2, 3] but besides the economic effect, human health is at stake because avian influenza can also infect mammals including humans [ 4, 5].
The biosecurity levels in the primary breeding sector are considered to be consistently high, making the probability of introduction of pathogens into this sector extremely low.
The maize diversity panel (composed of 302 inbred lines) represents much of the diversity available in public breeding sector around the world.
Many single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers have been identified and scored on a maize diversity panel (composed of 302 inbred line) that represents the diversity available in public breeding sector around the world [ 49, 50].
