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Great greens
Corn bread and turnip greens are as essential as grits and gravy down South. If you've acquired a taste for them, as Mike Isbell has, you don't want to have fungal diseases getting into your turnip patch.
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National 4-H Congress
Thanksgiving weekend will be about more than turkey and football for the more than 1,200 U.S. teens who are headed to Atlanta for the 82nd National 4-H Congress.
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North Korean ag project
After a three-day forum on North Korean and U.S. nuclear challenges, North Korean policy framers met with University of Georgia scientists and officials on lighter topic: jump-starting a cooperative agricultural project that's been stalled for two years.
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High-tech farm tool
Most farmers know that different areas of their fields produce better crops than others. Now yield maps can tell them exactly where these areas are and how to improve or avoid them.
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IOM elects Doyle
University of Georgia food microbiologist Michael Doyle has been elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine. Members are elected through a highly selective process that recognizes those who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health.
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Ag econ awards
David McElyea, Randy Nuckolls and John Hayes garnered the first Outstanding Agricultural Economist Awards during the J.W. Fanning Lecture and Awards Luncheon Nov. 11 in Athens, Ga.
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Cotton Workshop
In the farm fields of Georgia, cotton is king. Its $501 million farm-gate value more than doubles that of peanuts ($232 million). So why do farmers still wait to pick cotton after they harvest peanuts?
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Cow course
Biosecurity, animal identification and country-of-origin labeling are among the sessions planned for the 2003 Southeast Georgia Beef Cattle Short Course Dec. 2 in Statesboro, Ga.
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Perfect poinsettia
Along with evergreens, poinsettias embody the holiday spirit and help create festive displays. The challenge is deciding how many and what color, leaf shape, plant size and form to buy.
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Faux spring
Across central and north Georgia this fall, trees and shrubs, including cherry, peach, plum, apricot and nectarine trees, are blooming prematurely.