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  • Weather Predictions for Summer 2013 Are Hot, Rainy

    Features, May 17, 2013

    New Drought Monitor data shows the eastern half of the United States free of drought, while the National Weather Service predicts that central and southern parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the Florida panhandle may get more rain than normal over the next three months.

  • UGA Workshop to focus on Organic Grain Production Specific to Georgia's Climate

    News, May 16, 2013

  • Farm Bill Update, Price Protections

    Features, May 16, 2013

    As federal lawmakers continued to debate on Wednesday how much funding food stamps should receive over the next five years, peanut and rice farmers looked to a much less continuous part of the 2013 Farm Bill – price protections.

  • Taking the Smell Out of Chicken Litter

    Features, May 15, 2013

    Few things are more Southern than tea. But a Castleberry, Ala., company hopes to take its tea – an organic soil amendment made from composted waste – beyond Dixie and into other farming regions.

  • Deadline Nears to Participate in Ag Census 2012

    Features, May 13, 2013

    Farmers and ranchers across the country have a little more than two weeks left to return a census form to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and help shape public policy and research for the next half decade.

  • Census Report Shows More Women Farmers Than Ever Before

    Features, May 10, 2013

    Kristan Fretwell didn’t grow up on a farm. But as she got older, she wanted more control over the food that she gave her children, a wish that led her to join the growing number of women farmers.

  • Agronomist: Know When to Treat for Stinkbugs

    Features, May 09, 2013

    As kudzu bugs and a new type of stinkbug invade cotton, soybean and corn fields of the Southeast, farmers have figured out ways to fight them. But timing may make the difference in the battle against these voracious little bugs.

  • Save on Farm Insurance over the Long Term

    Features, May 06, 2013

    Insurance protects a farmer against unexpected expenses, but by using smart practices with the employees he hires, a farmer might also control some planned expenses. The more you do to avoid unnecessary claims on your insurance policies, the more control you have over premiums.

  • Study Finds Complex Issues Behind Bee Colony Collapse

    Features, May 03, 2013

    A study released by the USDA on Thursday found a complicated mix of problems that are leading to colony collapse disorder among honey bees.

  • Farm Credit Program Educating Next Generation of Farmers

    Features, May 02, 2013

    Farming is a business. That’s why Ag South Farm Credit wants young farmers not only to understand the farming side of what they do, but also the business side.

  • Middle Georgia Farmers Plan Heifer Sale This Weekend

    News, April 30, 2013

  • As Goats Grow More Popular, FVSU Research Helps Ranchers

    Features, April 30, 2013

    Raising goats for food is becoming more and more popular, but U.S. farmers can only keep up with about half of the demand in this country.

  • Wet Spring Delays Some Corn Planting

    Features, April 29, 2013

    Farmers in some corn-growing areas like West Tennessee are dealing with a problem most farmers haven’t faced much in the past few years. It’s raining too much.

  • Commodity Prices Drive Farmers to Clear More Land

    Features, April 26, 2013

    Farmers aren’t the type of customer that heavy equipment manufacturers target when they build excavators and front end loaders.

  • Diversifying Creates Small Farms Within Large Ones

    Features, April 25, 2013

    The Small Farms Field Day that University of Florida extension agents will put on in the Panhandle next month is for just that – small farms.

  • Teachers Using Agriculture to Teach History and Math

    Features, April 24, 2013

    Agriculture involves much more than the science of growing plants and raising animals. Innovative teachers around the country are using ag principles to teach everything from history to math to music, and American Farm Bureau is encouraging them with 10 scholarships to attend the National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference in Minneapolis, Minn., in June.

  • Agronomist: Don’t Starve Corn of Sulfur

    Features, April 22, 2013

    Heavy rains in late February and March lifted much of the Southeast out of the worst of the drought, but those downpours may also have put some fertilizer out of reach of young corn plants, one agronomists warns.

  • Southeast Olive Growers Set to Meet

    Features, April 18, 2013

    Georgia’s olive growers will get together in a couple of weeks for their annual meeting – a gathering that’s grown beyond just the handful of men who wanted to bring back a crop lost to the South 100 years ago.

  • The Time is Right to Recognize a Young Farmer

    Features, April 17, 2013

    Now is the time to nominate an exceptional young farmer or rancher – even if it’s yourself – for a chance to win statewide recognition and perhaps a national award.

  • Program Pools Heifers for Healthy Development

    Features, April 16, 2013

    To give a heifer the best chance at delivering a healthy calf, a producer must manage her nutrition and veterinary care differently than the rest of the herd.

  • Georgia Ag Department Managers Resign After Investigation

    Features, April 12, 2013

    The Georgia Department of Agriculture is losing two of its top administrators after a scandal involving alcohol and partial nudity at a training event.

  • Super Source of Vitamin C, Kiwi Hits Southeast Farms

    Features, April 09, 2013

    Wayne Bassett is a landscape man. He sells turfgrass and trees to provide shade and a habitat for wildlife. But when he got a taste of kiwi, he knew the sweet and nutritious fruit would soon be a major product for farmers in the Southeast.

  • Morris Finds Sweet Success with Vidalia Onions

    Farmer Profiles, April 08, 2013

    Would an onion by any other name taste as sweet? Randall Morris doesn’t think so. Randall and his brother Howard run Morris Farms in Uvalda – a rural part of Southeast Georgia that’s in the heart of onion country.

  • Farmer Profile: Morris Finds Sweet Success with Vidalia Onions

    Features, April 08, 2013

    Would an onion by any other name taste as sweet? Randall Morris doesn’t think so. Randall and his brother Howard run Morris Farms in Uvalda – a rural part of Southeast Georgia that’s in the heart of onion country.

  • Oklahoma Signs Off on Horse Slaughter for Food

    Features, April 05, 2013

    Oklahoma has overturned a 50-year-old law that banned slaughtering horses for meat, an issue that’s stirred debate in other Western states and even the U.S. Congress.

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