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Most Georgia farmers plant more than one crop during a season, usually managing a combination of peanuts, cotton, corn or soybeans. Across the board, they are looking at record or record-tying yields in 2009. CAES News
Georgia crops 08/26/10 Brad Haire
Georgia’s tobacco and pecan crop are on pace for a surprisingly good year. Not surprisingly, though, above-normal temperatures have smothered the state and taken a toll on some row crops, like peanut and cotton.
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Agribusiness conference 07/29/10 April Reese Sorrow
The 2010 Agribusiness Conference, “Building Agribusiness Alliances,” will be held Sept. 14 and 15 at Athens Technical College in Athens, Ga.
Produce on sale at the 2010 Athens Farmers Market. CAES News
Locally grown 07/22/10 April Reese Sorrow
Matthew Roher, chef and owner of Cha Bella restaurant in Savannah, says local is better, and he wants to connect Georgians to local producers of fine food.
Palmar amaranth, also called pigweed, dominates a cotton research plot on the University of Georgia Tifton campus June 23, 2010. CAES News
Pigweed problem 07/01/10 Brad Haire
Several years ago, pigweed found the weakness and breached the defense that Georgia cotton growers used to control it. It now threatens to knock them out, or at least the ones who want to make money.
UGA poultry science professor Mark Compton teaches high school students how to tie a surgeon's knot. CAES News
Avian adventures 07/01/10 Stephanie Schupska
The chicken was out cold when Brooke Chrisley tied her first surgeon’s knot. Her fellow students occasionally gently pinched the bird’s toe to make sure it was still anesthetized.
J. Scott Angle, dean and director of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture and Environmental Science. CAES News
New Farm Bill 05/27/10 J. Scott Angle
World population is swelling like a slow-moving tidal wave. In the past decade, the world’s population increased by almost 1 billion. Within the next four decades, experts expect the wave to grow by 50 percent, increasing to 9.4 billion people.
GAEMN weather station on the Stripling Irrigation Park in Camilla, Ga. CAES News
Closing station would be detrimental 04/22/10 Sharon Dowdy
Farmers rely on the most up-to-date local weather information to make the best decisions on when to plant or make other decisions for their crops. Without that knowledge, they can lose money, says a University of Georgia economist.
Headshot of Jeff Dorfman....2004 CAES News
Rising from recession 04/14/10 Jeffrey H. Dorfman
The recession ended in spring/summer 2009, but who can tell? The U.S. government hasn’t officially declared the recession over, but graphs put out by the Federal Reserve Board clearly show the recession ended last summer. While the recession is almost surely over for economists, most people are sure they are still in it.
Children eat mangoes and stare at UGA agricultural experts working in a field near Los Palis, Haiti, March 16. CAES News
Haiti agriculture 04/01/10 Brad Haire
In the shadow of a rundown block building in Los Palis, Haiti, children wearing tattered clothes bit into half-ripened mangoes they picked from the ground and wondered about the strange men toiling around in the field.
Paul Wigley, a University of Georgia Cooperative Extension coordinator in Calhoun County, talks to farmer Drew Collins on Jan. 28, 2010 in Morgan, Ga. CAES News
Hands-on research 03/25/10 Stephanie Schupska
University of Georgia research isn’t done just by professors in laboratories in Athens, Ga. It’s also conducted in fields, orchards and gardens statewide by UGA Cooperative Extension agents, who look to solve problems for the people in their counties.