NEW: The owner of Peanut the squirrel explains how New York officials raided his house, took Peanut and his raccoon, and k*lled them.
7-year-old Peanut and Fred the raccoon were euthanized after anonymous complaints.
“Officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer. I was sat outside my house for five hours. I had to get a police escort to my bathroom.”
“I wasn't even allowed to feed my rescue horses breakfast or lunch. I was sit, sat there like a criminal after they interrogated my wife to check out her immigration status.”
“Then proceeded to ask me if I had cameras in my house. Then proceeded to go through every cabinet, nook and cranny of my house for a squirrel and raccoon.”
“They got a search warrant for departments, and a judge signed off on a search warrant for a squirrel in a raccoon. And then they took them and k*lled them.”
Video: @TMZ
The Scherer lab was very busy last week. A field day at GCREC in Fairhope, the Central Crops field tour in central Alabama, TSWV ratings in peanuts at PBU, leaf spot/white mold ratings in peanuts at Headland, and looked for areolate mildew in prattville @AuburnAg
Congratulations to @Kaur__Livleen! Livleen graduated with her M.S. in Plant Pathology on Saturday and will be headed to Penn State for her P.h.D. We will miss you but are excited for your next chapter!
A lot of great information in the newest edition of the Alabama Crops Report Newsletter. Check it out for my update on cotton and peanut diseases in Alabama.
https://t.co/7TiRy41A59
One sad soybean. Compaction, drought and high heat is a bad combination for some. Possibly Rhizoctonia root and stem rot involved as well #Soybean ##Drought
Planted our cultivar x fungicide peanut test in Brewton on Wednesday. I think we set a record! Got done just before the rain rolled in. Also made a pit stop at the Conecuh sausage store on the way home.
My Ph. D student @kaysulley_ gave her proposal seminar to the department today. She did an amazing job and we had a great turn out. It’s great to have students and faculty show their support! Happy Friday all!
@ShambhuKatel1@held_david@StrayerScherer Thank you very much! And I am! I’m currently working with PGPR as a biocontrol and biofertilization blend for a PhD project in plant pathology!
I am excited to announce that my 1st article has been published in MDPI Microorganisms journal with public access! The process of publishing my first article has been humbling to say the least and I’m so thankful to everyone who helped me achieve this goal! #publishing#PGPR
Congratulations @kaysulley_ on the publication of the first paper from your Masters thesis in Microorganisms. Check it out if interested in the use of microbial inoculants in bermudagrass. https://t.co/NXnDPibCzF
Huge thanks to the FS Arant Entomology & Plant Pathology @fs_arant club for hosting the 1st departmental Shamrock Ball this weekend 🍀
And shoutout to my amazing lab for letting me convince them to go to the photo booth and "be your favorite insect!"
Glad to have the lab and @AuburnAg well represented at @sd_aps with @kaysulley_ presenting her research on the potential of utilizing PGPRs as biofertilizers and biological controls in Bermudagrass.