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Suspected 2,4-D herbicide damage on tomato. CAES News
Gardeners often unaware of exposing tomatoes to herbicides 06/21/12 Donn H Cooper
Home gardeners often inadvertently and unknowingly damage their vegetables with herbicides.
Third grade students climb on a parked tractor at Oconee County Ag Awareness Day on May 4, 2012 CAES News
Research aims to prevent farm youth injuries 06/19/12 Chelsea Toledo
The biggest threat to the health and safety of most children and adolescents is a motor vehicle accident. But the one million American children and teens living or working on farms in the U.S. face an additional danger—the tractors in their own backyards.
Fresh vegetables at a vendor stand at the Athens Farmers Market in Athens, Ga. CAES News
UGA provides training to help ensure safety at the farmers market 06/14/12 Merritt Melancon
Buying locally grown produce at the farmers market is a great way to ensure your family is getting the freshest food possible, but it doesn’t guarantee that the produce is safer. Just like any food, locally grown food must be handled safely on the farm and in the markets to make sure it is safe when it lands on the diner table.
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Controlling moles: remove their food source or get a dog 06/14/12 William G. Tyson
Do you have mysterious tunnels running through your lawn or flowerbeds? If so, a mole has likely invaded your yard, and you are not alone.
Fifty-five animal and dairy science graduate students and animal-breeding professionals gathered in at UGA's Athens campus for three weeks in May to study with UGA Animal and Dairy Science professor Ignacy MIsztal. CAES News
UGA faculty training a new generation of international livestock matchmakers 06/14/12 Merritt Melancon
University of Georgia animal and dairy scientist Ignacy Misztal develops software programs to help cattlemen select more productive cow couplings. His unique bovine matchmaking skills have earned him an international fan base of animal breeders and researchers.
Kudzu flower CAES News
One man's weed is another man's flower 06/14/12 Sharon Dowdy
Ralph Waldo Emerson defined a weed as “a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” To a serious gardener, a weed can be nothing less than the bane of his or her existence. University of Georgia Cooperative Extension horticulturist Bob Westerfield says the best way to control weeds is to get to them early.
A farmer uses his tractor to bushhog a pasture in Butts County, Ga. CAES News
Farm estate planning workshop set 06/12/12
For many families the farm is their family heritage. However, transferring the farming enterprise from one generation to the next or from one owner to another can be complicated, time-consuming and emotional. An up-coming workshop will help.
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Tomatoes can be picked at breaker stage or later 06/07/12 Frank M. Watson
Gardeners often argue about when tomatoes should be picked — when they’re ripe, almost ripe or green as the stalk that supports them.
Slime molds, like this dog vomit mold, pop up in Georgia every time it rains. This mold sprang up next to a corn plant in a Georgia garden this srping. It's not harmful but seems to gross out unsuspecting gardeners. CAES News
Alien-looking slime molds come from mulch not Mars 06/07/12 Michael J. Wheeler
Most of the time when people call their University of Georgia Extension office, they are typically fairly calm, but when they call to report a science-fiction-type growth has taken up residence in their yard, their nerves are usually on edge.