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Bill Mathis Discusses Residential Green Houses
Video, August 23, 2011
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In the Field - Cotton Acreage in GA and the US
Features, August 17, 2011
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GACAA Strengthens the Researcher-to-Farmer Connection
Features, August 10, 2011
For more than 75 years, county agricultural agents have demonstrated the latest techniques and research developments to Georgia producers in the areas of horticulture, animal science, forestry, pest management, economics and others. Seed and crop improvements, and modern fertilization programs all took root to some extent through county agent demonstrations. “Our current production of cotton and peanuts is a good example of university research facilitated by on-farm programs. On-farm demonstrations have facilitated perhaps more change in Georgia agriculture than any other program or practice,” said Casey Ritz, president of Georgia Association of County Agricultural Agents (GACAA).
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Emerging Weather Patterns Raise Possibility of Dry, Warm Winter
Features, August 07, 2011
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UGA, Others Granted $25 Million to Study Foodborne Viruses
News, August 05, 2011
Most people have heard of food pathogens like E. coli and salmonella, but the majority of food disease cases are caused by human noroviruses, not food pathogens. Many of these cases are the result of poor hand hygiene practices during food service, said University of Georgia food scientist Jennifer Cannon. For this reason UGA scientists will use their share of a $25 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to search for ways to reduce the number of virus-caused foodborne illnesses in the United States.
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In the Field - Peanuts, Acreage & Prices
Video, August 03, 2011
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Urban Ag Council Helps Members Comply With Changing Regulations
Features, August 02, 2011
On June 28, the Urban Ag Council held a seminar for its members on the new state immigration law and its implications for business owners. Legal and human resource experts offered advice on how to maintain a strictly legal workforce in light of the new rules requiring businesses to verify the immigration status of new workers. “Our members are focused on the day-to-day realities of running a business in today’s economy so we try to look out for new laws and regulations and lay out what it will take to comply,” said Mary Kay Woodworth, executive director of the Georgia Urban Ag Council.
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Seminole County Pumps Up Crop Yields
Features, July 31, 2011
Thanks to the abundant Floridan aquifer and widespread irrigation, farmers in Seminole County expect good returns on this year’s corn, peanut and cotton crops. Approximately 75 percent of cultivated acreage in Seminole County is irrigated, according to Seminole County Extension Coordinator Rome Ethredge. Despite this year’s record drought, water from the Floridan aquifer is still plentiful, which has enabled Seminole County farmers to realize good yields.
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UGA's Ruter named to endowed horticulture professorship
News, July 28, 2011
When University of Georgia horticulture professor Allan Armitage retired in November 2010, he left big shoes to fill. Earlier this month, John Ruter was tapped to continue Armitage’s work as part of the Allan M. Armitage Endowed Professorship for Herbaceous Plant Instruction and Introduction.
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4-H Program Succeeds by Doing More With Less
Features, July 27, 2011
Last week at the State 4-H Congress, more than 400 4-Hers gathered in Atlanta to see 150 young people from across Georgia recognized for outstanding achievements in public speaking, livestock programs, shooting sports and more. It’s the closing event of another 4-H year, a year that found the program doing more for more participants on reduced public funding. “Despite having about 15 percent fewer 4-H county agents due to budget cuts, we’ve been able to increase our participation compared to two or three years previously thanks to our volunteers and private funding,” said Arch Smith, state 4-H leader and director of 4-H for the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension.
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Paul Willis Discusses ABAC Historic Museum
Video, July 26, 2011
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Georgia 4-H Camp Hosts Military Kids from Across the Nation
Features, July 24, 2011
Will Appl, 15, of Austin, Texas, was tired of spending his summer playing computer games. So he, along with 157 other kids from military families, signed up for a week of summer camp at Georgia’s Wahsega 4-H Camp in Dahlonega, Ga. Held July 10-15, the Teen Summit camp was hosted by Georgia 4-H and the Air Force Reserve Command and was free to the military kids selected to attend. The students travelled to the camp from 41 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.
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Georgia Peanut Acreage Takes Dive
Features, July 22, 2011
Peanut acreage in Georgia this year dropped to the lowest amount in three decades, a sharp decline for the country’s leading peanut-producing state. Farmers planted 480,000 acres of peanuts this spring, according to a recent survey from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “If the peanut industry wanted to know what the bottom floor was for peanut acreage in Georgia in modern time, we reached it this year,” said Nathan Smith, a farm economist with University of Georgia Cooperative Extension.
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Pike Agribusiness Authority uses Federal Grant to Help Local Farmers
Features, July 20, 2011
An empty storefront on the market square in downtown Zebulon, Ga., is being eyed as the place where local agricultural crop diversity meets entrepreneurial product creativity.
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June Weather Sets Hot Records in Georgia
Features, July 17, 2011
Very hot daytime temperatures and lack of rainfall led to strengthened drought across Georgia in June. Temperatures were at or near record levels for the month across the state.
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Dogging Drought, Protecting Water Supplies
Features, July 15, 2011
After breathing a sigh of relief for the past few years, many Georgians are once again facing extreme drought conditions, which threaten to intensify during the summer.
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Joe West Discusses UGA Work on Water Issues
Video, July 14, 2011
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UGA Scientists Tackle Foodborne Pathogens on Beef
News, July 12, 2011
University of Georgia scientists were awarded a five-year $4.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study ways to kill foodborne pathogens on beef before it arrives on supermarket shelves and in restaurant kitchens. The research project focuses on six different processing technologies at meat processing facilities to determine if they are effective and feasible to adopt across the industry. Technologies examined during the project will include infrared radiation, electrolyzed water, radio frequency, a levulinic acid plus sodium dodecyl wash, UV activated TiO2 photocatalysis treatment and germicidal UV light.
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Jean Hurst Shares UGA Tifton Conference Center Events
Video, July 11, 2011
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UGA Study Investigates Impact of Farm Labor Shortages
Features, July 08, 2011
Changes in certain policies affecting farm labor and improved business strategies are needed to help farmers weather farm labor shortages, says a University of Georgia agricultural economist. “Policymakers really need to look at the farmers’ perspectives. We need to give them more options,” said Cesar Escalante, an economist with the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
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Ag Education Aims to Make Agribusiness a Leader in Job Creation
Features, July 06, 2011
The outlook for jobs in agribusiness looks strong in 2010 to 2015, according to the most recent five-year study titled “Employment Opportunities for College Graduates in Food, Renewable Energy and the Environment” by Purdue University in conjunction with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Consumer preferences for nutritious, safe foods and food, energy and environment public policy choices are among the factors shaping the market. John “Chip” Bridges, Program Manager for Agricultural Education in the Georgia Department of Education, believes the agribusiness sector can help lead the U.S. economy in job creation and growth over the next five to 10 years.
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Smart phone app teaches UGA students about turfgrass
News, July 05, 2011
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In organic crops, use an integrated approach to weed management
Features, July 01, 2011
Outsmarting weeds in organic crop production sometimes requires unorthodox, or what Carroll Johnson calls “bizarre” management techniques. At the University of Georgia’s Principles of Integrated Weed Management in Organic Crop Production Workshop in Tifton, Ga., June 22, people got a glimpse of one of those unusual tactics: a brush-hoe in a peanut field.
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Southwest Georgia Farm Credit Warns of Interest-Rate Risk
Features, June 29, 2011
Interest rates remain at historically low levels due to the extraordinary bond-buying efforts undertaken by the Federal Reserve to address the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. In June with the end of the second round of quantitative easing, the Fed’s bond-buying program, the potential for rising interest rates has increased. “The prime rate has fallen to 3.25 percent, but the long-term average is 7 to 8 percent so the potential for interest rate risk is currently high,” said Richard Monson, president of Southwest Georgia Farm Credit.
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Expect Steel Prices to Remain High
Features, June 27, 2011
As demand from industrial goods manufacturers and other steel-consuming industries increased in early 2010, steel producers took prices up. Since then prices have remained steady as manufacturers continue to rebuild inventories in a variety of industries. “We’re a small fish in a big pond in terms of steel use so we buy where the market is at,” said Jody Tyson, owner of Tyson Steel.
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