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Georgia National Guardsmen with the 201st Regional Support Group's Agribusiness Development Team hoist a University of Georgia flag over their base in Logar Province, Afghanistan. The Augusta-based unit served in Afghanistan from May 2011 to May 2012. They will present a base flag, now autographed and war torn, to the administration of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences during a ceremony June 11 at Conner Hall on UGA's Athens Campus. CAES News
Georgia National Guardsmen with the 201st Regional Support Group's Agribusiness Development Team hoist a University of Georgia flag over their base in Logar Province, Afghanistan. The Augusta-based unit served in Afghanistan from May 2011 to May 2012. They will present a base flag, now autographed and war torn, to the administration of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences during a ceremony June 11 at Conner Hall on UGA's Athens Campus.
Georgia Guardsmen return to UGA to present base flag
The Georgia National Guard’s Agribusiness Development Team I will be on the University of Georgia campus June 11 at 2 p.m. to present the faculty of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences with a UGA flag that was flown over their base in Logar Province in Afghanistan.
University of Georgia Distinguished Research Professor Casimir Akoh CAES News
University of Georgia Distinguished Research Professor Casimir Akoh
Hazelnuts improve infant formula
Human breast milk is the best source of food for infants. University of Georgia researchers have found what may be a new second best—formula made from hazelnut oil.
New cabin at Rock Eagle - 2012 CAES News
New cabin at Rock Eagle - 2012
2013 state budget funds seven new cabins at Rock Eagle 4-H Center
Former 4-H'ers who bunked at Rock Eagle 4-H Center for camp may find themselves feeling a little jealous of the newest generation of 4-H campers. The center has four new cabins, five under construction and will soon build seven more thanks to $2.5 million dollars appropriated for the project in the Georgia 2013 state budget.
UGA Extension faculty are helping Georgia farmers make the state's more than 12,000 broiler houses more efficient. CAES News
UGA Extension faculty are helping Georgia farmers make the state's more than 12,000 broiler houses more efficient.
UGA Extension helps poultry farmers lower their power bills
The practices that can help us save energy in our own homes, like sealing leaks, insulating and updating cooling systems and replacing light bulbs, are also being used to make Georgia’s prolific poultry industry more efficient — one chicken house at a time.
Fresh vegetables at a vendor stand at the Athens Farmers Market in Athens, Ga. CAES News
Fresh vegetables at a vendor stand at the Athens Farmers Market in Athens, Ga.
Snails in the kale?
Farmers markets offer the best of local, fresh produce throughout Georgia. But all those mouth-watering vegetables straight from the field sometimes come with slimy little surprises — bugs.
Photo of nursery manager John Watson using IPMPro, a pest management app recently released by a team of researchers from a several different universities. CAES News
Photo of nursery manager John Watson using IPMPro, a pest management app recently released by a team of researchers from a several different universities.
Land grant universities team up to create integrated pest management app
Green industry professionals often find themselves in the field needing immediate access to the latest pest and plant disease information and plant care recommendations, especially when they are caught off guard by destructive pests emerging in their area.
A European Pepper Moth found in Tifton, Ga. in October 2011. CAES News
A European Pepper Moth found in Tifton, Ga. in October 2011.
Unwelcome guest: The European Pepper Moth arrives in Georgia
A new insect thought to threaten Georgia's pepper production at the moment poses a greater danger to lantana - a popular landscape plant.
Freshly picked blueberries sit in baskets at the University of Georgia horticulture farm in Athens, Ga. CAES News
Freshly picked blueberries sit in baskets at the University of Georgia horticulture farm in Athens, Ga.
Blueberry farmers project 60 million pound blueberry harvest
It’s time to dust off those killer pie and muffin recipes. Georgia’s blueberry season is in full swing.
Harmon Johar, a junior studying entomology at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences founded World Entomophagy — an international company that supplies edible insects to chefs. CAES News
Harmon Johar, a junior studying entomology at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences founded World Entomophagy — an international company that supplies edible insects to chefs.
Roasted crickets can be gourmet or life-sustaining food
If it were a matter of life over death, most people would munch on a grasshopper. But would you do so purely by choice? University of Georgia student Harman Johar is counting on it.