Abstract Timely and quality planting of soybean is important to achieve maximum yield potential. Wet spring soil conditions rain frequently shorten the time for farmers plant crops within optimal conditions. New planter technology has been introduced that enables their fields faster more precisely than with traditional planters. Large plot field studies were conducted in Indiana from 2015 2017 ...

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This study examines how health facilities and services were used as an agency of worker control in the British Caribbean between 1838 and 1860. It argues that planter health strategies were based on flawed assumptions. The resultant policy of deprivation of access to medical services by the labouring population backfired within 16 years of freedom when a cholera epidemic rocked the region. It e...

Towards .the end of 1892, a daughter of the then Civil Surgeon contracted kala-azar and died after many months of suffering in Darjeeling. In February, 1893, the Forest Officer developed the disease and died a few months later in Calcutta. Towards the end of that year the District Superintendent of Police and his little boy aged seven years were attacked, and they both died the following year i...