The Rural Voice, 1978-10, Page 49Ag research
in Australia
A Guelph professor is investigating
Australian research into crop pollution,
plant physiology and soil science.
Douglas Omrod, professor' of Horti-
cultural Science at the University of
Guelph, visited Perth, Australia recently as
the guest of Dr. Denis Kidby, specialist in
general and applied microbiology at the
University of Western Austrialia Depart-
ment of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition.
The Guelph professor examined re-
search that the department was carrying
out on sewage sludge applications to
agricultural land and techniques developed
by the university's botany department in
plant pysiology.
He also called on the Western
Australian State Government Department
otAgriculture to look at chemical analyses
Farming Around the World
that are used with vegetation damage
studies in diagnosing fluoride pollution of
crops close to industry, urban areas and
busy highways. Prof. Ormrod is attending
the International Congress of Horticultural
Science at Sydney, New South Wales,
where he is presenting one invited paper
on methods of research in environmental
studies and another on airpollution effects
on horticultural plants.
Brazil fights
swine fever
Outbreaks of African swine fever in
Brazil are serious and spreading, according
to a report from U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) team sent to help
Brazilian animal health officials fight this
most deadly of all foreign swine diseases.
Brazilian animal health officials are
destroying all hogs on infected premises.
The carcasses are burned or buried on the
premises, and the owners are paid
indemnities to help compensate them for
their losses.
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