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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.
House flies are called filth flies because their larvae develop well in decaying garbage and animal feces. CAES News
Houseflies may contribute to cases of foodborne illness 04/01/10 April Reese Sorrow
Have you ever noticed flies buzzing around your favorite restaurant? No big deal, right? Wrong. “People view flies as a nuisance, but the evidence shows they are much more than that,” said Ludek Zurek, faculty member with the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine and College of Agriculture. “House flies may be the link of bacteria between food animals and residential areas.”
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Food and cereal scientist to present UGA Woodruff Lecture April 8 04/01/10
Food science and food safety have become hot topics in recent years. David Lineback, a food scientist and carbohydrate chemist at the University of Maryland, will speak on both at the annual J.G. Woodruff Lecture on April 8 in Athens.
Organic onions growing in a field in south Georgia CAES News
Organic gardening takes more time, effort and forethought 03/25/10 Paul Pugliese
Home gardeners who want to try their hand at growing organic vegetables should lower their expectations just a little and be prepared to put in more “sweat equity.”
Paul Wigley, a University of Georgia Cooperative Extension coordinator in Calhoun County, talks to farmer Drew Collins on Jan. 28, 2010 in Morgan, Ga. CAES News
Extension agents provide practical research for state's producers 03/25/10 Stephanie Schupska
University of Georgia research isn’t done just by professors in laboratories in Athens, Ga. It’s also conducted in fields, orchards and gardens statewide by UGA Cooperative Extension agents, who look to solve problems for the people in their counties.