b"The Futureof Disease DetectionNose Knows Scouting, a canine disease detection service, works to ensure crop security.BY: ALLY RODENITS NO SECRET dogs have a talent for farm work. Canines have been used on farms in different capacities for years. Instead of being a faithful livestock guardian or a herding helper, theyre finding new talents for their noses: disease detection.Similar to the jobs you see hounds perform in airport security lines or even as medical alert service animals, dogs are finding new homes in fields to determine what diseases are found in fields.Canines are one of the most successfully domesticated animals in history. We've been using them as hunters and gatherers for quite a long time. The benefit of dogs is their ability to understand and also the ability to work well with humans. Canines have a sense of smell 10,000 to 100,000 times better than humans, with hundreds to millions more receptor cells than we do. They're very mobile, but they can handle almost any scenario we can put them into, says Julian L. Mendel, research assistant professor at Florida International University and an author of various studies on canine disease detection, in a phone interview with Spud Smart.They have been used in law enforcement for quite some time. Canines, of course, have been used for missing people, drugs, explosives, money, guns and ammunition he adds. That leap from the historical aspects of using dogs is an easy one to make when you think about the science behind it, and how easy it is to have dogs work on different odours. So, it's not a new science by any means, but it is definitely very useful.The high value of canines for disease detection, along with her love for the animals, is why Andrea Parish created her company Nose Knows Scouting, a service that uses dogs to detect disease A Nose Knows Scouting canine working in a crop field. Photo: Andrea Parish in crops, and specifically in potatoes.Nose Knows Scouting was established by Parish just a few 26SPUDSMART.COM Fall 2022"