农业信息：传统与现代的耦合

近年来，国家投资建设大量信息基础设施，以保证农业信息能更好的被农户采用。而现实中，农户并不通过网络、电视和报刊等现代信息手段获得农业信息，相反，基于地缘和血缘的熟人网络和以盈利为目的的商人成了农业信息传播的主要媒介。在这种传播方式下，农户的利益常遭侵害，农业科技难以广泛有效的传播，甚至一些假信息让农户失去了对“科技”的信赖。针对目前存在的种种问题，笔者兼顾现实与未来，提出了相关对策。     

饲料企业降低沟通成本之浅见

在生产经营活动中．说到成本．人们大都会想到直接成本与间接成本．或生产成本与营销成本等有形成本．但有一类无形成本却往往容易被忽视，那就是沟通成本。沟通成本是指由于沟通不畅等原因造成的营运成本增加。由于其无形的特征．所以由它导致的成本上升很难用一个确切的数字来描述。我国饲料工业的历史不过20余年．即使是一些成功的饲料公司也难以通过根深蒂固的企业文化来规范员工的言行。加之缺乏诚信环境和市场不规范现象比比皆是．人员流动频繁，盈利导向至上，员工缺乏系统培训即上岗．唯亲是用等，这都或多或少导致了企业内部的信息与沟通不畅，甚至阻塞逆反．互相扯皮推诿，进而导致沟通成本上升，隐性费用增加，企业市场竞争力下降。     

Observations on transplacental infection with bluetongue virus in sheep

Twenty-four ewes were inoculated with 1 of 2 strains of bluetongue virus type 4 at 40, 60, or 80 days of gestation. Two ewes aborted, 2 ewes died, and 1 was killed during the experiment, but their fetuses were recovered. At term, 2 mummified fetuses, 4 dead lambs, and 17 clinically healthy lambs were produced by 12 sheep, and the remaining 7 sheep were barren. Porencephaly and cerebellar dysgenesis were found in term lambs born to sheep inoculated at 40 and 60 days of gestation. Radiographic examination of 12 fetuses showed developmental ages far less than their chronologic age; 8 fetuses had skeletal growth-retardation lines, which were also observed in the dead lambs. A systemic lymphoreticular hyperplasia was observed in the dead lambs and in all lambs at 12 weeks of age; in 4 of the latter, granulomatous reactions were present in the liver and kidney. Lungs of the full-term lambs were reduced in weight and showed poor alveolar development and mononuclear cell infiltration, which persisted in the 12-week-old lambs. It was concluded that bluetongue virus is capable of causing not only gross abnormalities of the CNS, but also generalized growth retardation and fetal lymphoreticular hyperplasia.