Bacteriologist and parasitologist Michelle Jakaitis uses a microscope to view a training sample of veligers, which are the ...

LaHood, however, has fought to keep the Peoria Ag Lab running in the past. In 2019, LaHood and then-U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, a Democrat, lobbied the Trump administration to remove the facility from ...

State officials suspended the license of Certified Ag Labs for 30 days and thereafter allowed the business to resume testing, except for THC. Certified Ag Labs since presented the state with a ...

Lindsey Fransen, a laboratory technician with the National Agricultural Genotyping Center in Fargo, North Dakota, on Sept. 8, 2022, places samples into PowerLyzer 24 homogenizer, which pulverizes ...

The Ag Lab also has one of the largest publicly available collections of microbes in the world. That’s about 90,000 different microbes — yeasts, bacteria, fungi, etc. — that started from the ...