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Armyworms marching 09/05/02
These green or brown worms can eat up pastures, hay fields and yards faster than Mike Isbell's cousins could grab up all the deviled eggs at the family reunion. They (the worms, not the cousins) can turn acres of fields, pastures or lawns into nothing more than stubs sticking out of the ground.
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Landscape Workshop 09/05/02
There's more to making landscape businesses work than having a pickup and trailer, a mower and some tools. For anyone just starting out, or just thinking about getting into the business, "Starting a Landscape Business" is a gold mine of information.
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To develop or not 09/03/02
The National Wilderness Preservation System holds and protects millions of acres in the United States from human development. But of what value is this, really? University of Georgia scientists are helping spearhead a national study to help elected officials, regulatory agencies and land policymakers answer this question.
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Fern Madness at GPC 09/03/02
Georgia Perimeter College’s Fern Madness returns to the Botanical Garden located at the Decatur Campus, 3251 Panthersville Road, Decatur. Numerous varieties of ferns will be available for sale Sept. 3-6 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and Sept. 7, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

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Spitless muscadines 08/29/02
Charles Cowart grows sweet, healthful, muscadine grapes. But he knows he can't just go on selling grapes. "There's a whole other group of consumers out there who aren't concerned with how great this product is," says Cowart, owner of the 150-acre Still Pond Vineyard near Arlington, Ga. "They're more interested in how easy and fast it is."
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Grape grackles 08/29/02
If Mike Isbell had stopped to listen before he opened the door, he probably would have known what was in his yard. Grackles make the most irritating sound -- like turning the dial on a radio real fast. And they were all over his muscadine vines.
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Fewer turf pests. 08/28/02
It's hard to think of any reason to celebrate over the state's drought conditions, but south Georgia golf course managers have one. Fewer mole crickets. Mole crickets are small, light brown insects that live in, and cause extensive damage to, turfgrass.
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Mosquito babies 08/24/02
The best and cheapest way to control mosquitoes is to prevent their larvae from developing. Mosquito larvae can develop only in water, pupating while they're suspended from the surface. Getting rid of places where water collects, or making these places inhospitable to mosquito larvae, can keep you safer from mosquito-borne diseases.
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Future of Agriculture. 08/22/02
ATHENS, Ga. -- Agriculture policymakers, researchers and experts discussed how the recently passed 2002 farm bill will affect Georgia's economy and its No. 1 industry during the Symposium on the Future of American Agriculture here Aug. 15.
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Black bluebird 08/21/02
Bluebirds are sky blue, not black. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, at Cornell University, a leading authority on birds, has no record of a black bluebird ever being reported -- ever! Yet here we were, waiting patiently, cameras in hand, for one to show up.