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U.S. currency and credit cards. CAES News
U.S. currency and credit cards.
Aspiring Georgia entrepreneurs turn to UGA for new business workshops
Aspiring home business owners across the state can now receive free training through workshops offered by the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences extension agents.
The Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute (GTIPI) will offer four training and community education initiatives through this year's grant award. CAES News
The Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute (GTIPI) will offer four training and community education initiatives through this year's grant award.
UGA Traffic Injury Prevention Institute awarded grant for statewide education
The University of Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute has been awarded a $640,000 grant from the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to continue its statewide education programs in the areas of child passenger safety, parent and teen driving safety and senior driver education.
An outdoor water spigot extends from a building on the University of Georgia campus in Griffin, Ga. CAES News
An outdoor water spigot extends from a building on the University of Georgia campus in Griffin, Ga.
Impending cold weather could burst exposed water pipes
With fall weather just beginning, you may not be worried about cold weather problems yet. The child in all of us gets excited at the thought of snow, but we quickly lose that excitement when our water pipes freeze.
Tim Brenneman, a University of Georgia plant pathologist, shows nematode damage on peanuts during the Georgia Peanut Tour in September. CAES News
Tim Brenneman, a University of Georgia plant pathologist, shows nematode damage on peanuts during the Georgia Peanut Tour in September.
Nematode damage can have devastating impact on peanuts
Tiny microscopic worms called nematodes can have a devastating and costly effect on peanut crops. A new nematode resistant peanut variety, bred by Georgia researchers, will ease this problem by stopping the pest from reproducing. If necessary, University of Georgia experts recommend farmers start using this new variety next season.
Many parts of Georgia only saw about a quarter of their normal October rainfall during October 2013. CAES News
Many parts of Georgia only saw about a quarter of their normal October rainfall during October 2013.
Abnormally dry conditions return to state during October
After an extremely wet summer, Georgians saw the return of abnormally dry conditions in October.
Georgia 4-H State Leader Arch Smith (right) and Georgia 4-H Environmental Education Program Director Melanie Biersmith unveil the sign at the Diane Davies Natural History Museum on Oct. 29, 2013. Davies, the founder of the program, looks on. CAES News
Georgia 4-H State Leader Arch Smith (right) and Georgia 4-H Environmental Education Program Director Melanie Biersmith unveil the sign at the Diane Davies Natural History Museum on Oct. 29, 2013. Davies, the founder of the program, looks on.
Georgia 4-H museum honors environmental education program founder Diane Davies
Thirty-four years ago, Georgia 4-H State Leader Tom Rodgers gave Diane Davies $300 and six months to create an environmental education program for children. She turned that $300 into a nationally recognized program that has served over 1 million children in Georgia's public schools, private schools and home-schooled students.
Pictured are peanut burrower bugs. CAES News
Pictured are peanut burrower bugs.
Burrower bug silent pest for peanut producers
A silent peanut pest is eating away at profits and has Georgia producers concerned. The burrower bug can wreak havoc on a farmer’s peanuts without him even knowing.
Ree Daniel, of Tift County, won first-place with her 252-pound pumpkin in the 2014 Georgia 4-H Pumpkin Growing Contest. CAES News
Ree Daniel, of Tift County, won first-place with her 252-pound pumpkin in the 2014 Georgia 4-H Pumpkin Growing Contest.
Georgia 4-H'ers produce huge pumpkins
People often associate giant pumpkins with northern states like Michigan and Massachusetts, but Georgia gardeners routinely produce 200- to 350-pound pumpkins. What makes these giant gourds more remarkable is that some of these gardeners are only about one-quarter of the size of their prize pumpkins.
Cotton is dumped into a trailer at the Gibbs Farm in Tifton on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. CAES News
Cotton is dumped into a trailer at the Gibbs Farm in Tifton on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013.
Cotton crop delayed by weather
Mid-summer rainfall combined with cooler fall weather could impact production for late-season cotton farmers throughout Georgia.