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Guest speakers, like Marvin Ellison, executive vice-president for Home Depot, share their stories with the Empowering Young Entrepreneurs Leadership Academy at South Cobb High School, organized by Kimberly Taylor. CAES News
Young entrepreneurs gain upper hand from Extension 03/31/11 April Reese Sorrow
Kimberly Taylor believes students shouldn’t have to work for other people. They can use their skills to create their own businesses and opportunities to employ others.
Rodeo referees wait for the next event to begin at the Great Southland Stampede Rodeo. CAES News
UGA students 'tough enough' to tackle 37th annual rodeo 03/31/11 Stephanie Schupska
Whether you’re tough enough to wear pink, have children who love baby animals or want to holler for calf ropers and bull riders, the University of Georgia’s Block and Bridle Club is gearing up for you. The 37th annual Great Southland Stampede Rodeo rolls into Athens, Ga., April 14-16.
Wayne Parrott, a crop and soil sciences professor at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, checks out the growth of a few of his soybean plants. CAES News
New UGA research aimed at crop-claiming soybean fungus 03/31/11 Stephanie Schupska
Soybeans are critical to the U.S. economy. But the third largest crop in the nation has an enemy eating away at it, a fungus in the same family as the one that caused the infamous Irish Potato Famine.
Beef cattle graze on a pasture on the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center in Blairsville, Ga. CAES News
UGA Beef Cattle Field Day set for Blairsville 03/31/11 Sharon Dowdy
Georgia cattle farmers, both large and small scale, will learn useful research-based information at the annual University of Georgia Mountain Beef Cattle Field Day April 20 in Blairsville, Ga.
A carpenter bee prepares to build its nests in a tree. CAES News
Carpenter bees work on wooden structures 03/30/11 Wade Hutcheson
As enthusiastic, bored children, we would try to hit them with baseball bats. A tennis racket would have been a better choice, but there were no tennis courts on our farm. Nonetheless, carpenter bees were a lot of fun for growing boys.
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 peanut assessment vote deadline is April 15 03/28/11
Georgia peanut producers have until April 15 to vote and return their ballots in a referendum to increase their assessment by $1 per ton of peanuts they sell. The assessment funds Georgia Peanut Commission’s promotion, research, education and communication programs.
"Your Southern Garden" host Walter Reeves. CAES News
Your Southern Garden 2011 season premieres April 2 03/28/11 J. Faith Peppers
“Your Southern Garden” with Walter Reeves, a regional educational television show, will start its 2011 season April 2, just in time to get Southern gardeners geared up and ready for spring planting.
Judges sample products at the 2011 Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest. CAES News
2011 Flavor of Georgia contest winners announced 03/24/11 April Reese Sorrow
Jam of Love is more than a business name for Emily Myers and Gina Bodell of Dunwoody: It’s a philosophy. Each batch of their traditional, all-natural jams are made in small batches and poured into jars by hand.
Everett Williams, center, checks the moisture level in just-cut rye grass on his dairy in Madison, Ga. CAES News
Madison dairy wins Ga. environmental stewardship award 03/24/11 Stephanie Schupska
Dairy cows are Everett Williams’ life. Whether he’s cutting hay, reusing water or finding more ways to make his dairy viable and environmentally friendly, his work circles around his family farm near Madison, Ga., and the cows that walk into the milking barn three times a day.