Two young strike sympathizers on roller skates in the U.S. circa 1910s. In the context of organized labor, scab is a derogatory term referring to a worker who declines to join a union, leaves the ...

There are hundreds of choices when picking a crabapple tree from the nursery, but a Purdue University expert says only a handful are resistant to a widespread fungus or other serious diseases. After ...

Scabs usually heal on their own, but techniques such as keeping the wound clean, moisturizing the area, and avoiding picking the scab can help support the healing process. Keeping a wound clean and ...

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain wears a shirt reading ‘Trump is a Scab’ at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19, 2024. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Over its long history, the ...

[Although the author of this paper has been chiefly known to the readers of the ATLANTIC as a writer of stories of the Klondike, he has given many years to the study of social problems. The People of ...

Question: I recently had a pretty good “strawberry” from scraping my leg on some concrete. I kept it covered with a large Band-Aid to protect it. Some of my friends said that I should leave it open to ...

Roseau, Minnesota, farmer Richard Magnusson remembers all too well the year 1993, when his fields of wheat became so infected with Fusarium head blight that the best thing to do was set fire to the ...

At a meeting of Variety editors the other day, we got to talking about “scabs” and wondering how that term came to be used to describe a strikebreaker. Being wordsmiths, we couldn’t help looking it up ...

Figure 1. A- Wheat strip rust, B-Septoria leaf spot, and C-Fusarium head blight. Photo credits: PPDL Samples can always be submitted to the Purdue Plant Pest Diagnostic Lab for disease identification ...

A new wheat variety released by Oklahoma State University will help eastern and northern Oklahoma farmers combat the small grain fungal disease fusarium head blight, also known as head scab. “It’s not ...