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A pair of hummingbirds fly around a feeder at a North Georgia home. CAES News
Put out welcome mat for springtime hummingbirds 04/08/10 April Reese Sorrow
Hummingbirds will soon make their way back to Georgia after wintering in Central America. Welcome them to your house by providing their favorite plants and the right food in the right places.
A competitor warms up before his event at the Great Southland Stampede Rodeo in 2008. CAES News
UGA student rodeo is “Tough Enough” 04/08/10 Stephanie Schupska
The University of Georgia’s Block and Bridle Club is gearing up for the 36th annual Great Southland Stampede Rodeo, and that’s meant some sleepless nights for rodeo chairman Ashley Buford.
Members of professional agricultural sorority Sigma Alpha planted a pizza garden at Charles Ellis Elementary School in Savannah, Ga., in March 2010. CAES News
UGA students put agriculture knowledge to work in school garden 04/08/10 Andrea Gonzalez
A group of college students spending a weekend at the beach is a common occurrence. Having them take time out from sunbathing to weed a community garden is rare.
James Worley maintains turfgrass with a mower at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in Griffin, Ga., July 26, 2005. CAES News
Golfers tee up at Southeast's best courses, fund turfgrass research 04/07/10 Sharon Dowdy
Golfers can bid online now to tee up at the most exclusive golf courses in the Southeast and help fund turfgrass research while doing it.
A redbud tree (cercis spp.) blooms during springtime on the UGA Griffin Campus CAES News
Spring starts cool, dry in Georgia 04/06/10 Pam Knox
Spring across most of Georgia started cooler and drier than normal, forcing flowering plants and trees to bud a week to two weeks later than usual.
Headshot of Jeff Dorfman....2004 CAES News
Risky business, investment paved the road to recession 04/01/10
After several long years of financial angst, people the world over are weary from recession depression. The prolonged economic drag has plenty of pundits asking: “What in the world happened?”
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Healthy fish ponds need managers 04/01/10 Jim F. Crawford
Spring weather signals all kinds of changes in nature. Trees sprout leaves. Plants bloom. But weather that brings nature back to life can also kill the fish in ponds.
Beef cattle graze on a pasture on the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center in Blairsville, Ga. CAES News
UGA Beef Cattle Field Day slated 04/01/10
Georgia cattle farmers, both large and small scale, will find useful knowledge at the annual University of Georgia Mountain Beef Cattle Field Day April 21 in Blairsville, Ga.
Children eat mangoes and stare at UGA agricultural experts working in a field near Los Palis, Haiti, March 16. CAES News
UGA team initiates ag development in Haiti 04/01/10 Brad Haire
In the shadow of a rundown block building in Los Palis, Haiti, children wearing tattered clothes bit into half-ripened mangoes they picked from the ground and wondered about the strange men toiling around in the field.