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Soil sample bags await processing at the University of Georgia Soil Testing Laboratory in Athens, Ga. CAES News
Test the soil in sleeping garden plots now 01/18/12 Michael J. Wheeler
Backyard gardens have stopped producing, and everything has been bitten by a couple of hard, fall frosts. There’s not much to do in the garden this time of year, but you can get ahead of the game for next year’s vegetable garden by taking a soil sample now.
cracked pecans CAES News
USDA funds UGA research on nutritional, health benefits of pecans 01/17/12 Stephanie Schupska
The pecan, a Georgia crop staple, packs a much higher antioxidant punch than its nut-cousin the almond. But what the little-known nut is high in is overshadowed by what it’s low in—research, marketing and consumer data.
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Dispose of excess and old chemicals safely 01/17/12 Frank M. Watson
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Agent Frank Watson discusses the proper way to dispose of excess chemicals.
Bryan County Elementary School fifth-grader Dy'Amond McGhee wins a computer through the 4-H Need a Computer program. CAES News
Georgia 4-H awards 34 free computers 01/14/12
Georgia 4-H’s Need a Computer program made 34 lucky students’ holidays brighter by awarding each of them a free personal computer.
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Annual J.W. Fanning Lecture slated at UGA 01/14/12
The University of Georgia will present the annual J.W. Fanning Lecture on Jan. 20, 2012. The lecture will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the UGA campus in Athens, Ga.
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Peanut prices hold strong, 2012 acreage still question 01/12/12 Brad Haire
The peanut industry learned a lesson last year: Farmers don’t feel they have to drop peanut seed into the ground unless the price is right for their efforts. Georgia farmers last year planted the fewest peanuts in three decades. By harvest, this move pushed prices to more than $1,000 per ton, the highest in recent history. But that was last year. What about this one?
Franklin West is an assistant research scientist with the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. CAES News
UGA researcher named emerging scholar by Diverse magazine 01/12/12 J. Faith Peppers
Franklin West, a University of Georgia assistant professor of animal and dairy science in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been named one of the nation’s top scholars under 40 by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine.
U.S. currency and credit cards. CAES News
Set goals now to save money this year 01/05/12 Michael Rupured
Holiday spending excesses lead many people to resolve to handle money differently in the coming year. All too often, budgeting resolutions fall by the wayside before Groundhog Day. When curbing excess spending sounds like a painful exercise in self-denial, is it any wonder so many people fail to keep budgeting resolutions?
Mistletoe grows on a pear tree in Butts County, Ga. CAES News
Mistletoe may help sweethearts, but it hurts host trees 01/05/12 Paul Pugliese
Mistletoe is often used postmortem to lure unsuspecting sweethearts to a Christmastime kiss. For the other 364 days of the year, it is actually considered an infectious parasite that kills trees.