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Dan MacLean demonstrates the easiest way to pick a pomegranate - with a pocketknife. CAES News
Dan MacLean demonstrates the easiest way to pick a pomegranate - with a pocketknife.
Georgia farmers getting taste for pomegranates
In southeast Georgia, an area of the state known for its blueberries, Brantley Morris of Morris Nursery in Alma, Ga., gets calls at least once a week from farmers who want to grow pomegranate trees.
Bacterial leaf scorch, caused by the bacterium Xyella fastidiosa, causes what looks like burns on the blueberry leaves. CAES News
Bacterial leaf scorch, caused by the bacterium Xyella fastidiosa, causes what looks like burns on the blueberry leaves.
Disease threatens Georgia blueberry crop
Blueberries passed peaches as the state’s top moneymaking fruit a few years ago, worth more than $100 million on the farm annually. But new diseases threaten to hamper its rise, says a University of Georgia fruit specialist.
Base of oak tree with no turf growing underneath CAES News
Base of oak tree with no turf growing underneath
Trees and turf can thrive together
Leaves are falling. Temperatures are dropping. It’s a good time to add new trees to the landscape. Before putting shovel to dirt, make sure new trees won’t compete with the lawn for soil or moisture.
A visitor at the 33rd annual Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition Oct. 19 takes a putt at the University of Georgia building, where the university highlighted its world-famous turfgrass research program. Most southeastern golf courses and many football fields are planted in a turf developed by UGA. CAES News
A visitor at the 33rd annual Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition Oct. 19 takes a putt at the University of Georgia building, where the university highlighted its world-famous turfgrass research program. Most southeastern golf courses and many football fields are planted in a turf developed by UGA.
Georgia farmer picked best in Southeast
The 33rd annual Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition kicked off Oct. 19 in Moultrie, Ga., where visitors could learn everything agriculture and a Georgia man walked away as the Southeast’s top farmer.
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Africanized honeybees
Georgia man's death confirms presence of Africanized honeybees
Last week’s death of an elderly Dougherty County man has been attributed to Africanized honeybees. This fatality confirms the bees’ arrival in Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Agriculture.
Freshly cut gladiolus lie in a field south of Mexico City. CAES News
Freshly cut gladiolus lie in a field south of Mexico City.
Disease threatens gladiolus fresh cut market
A University of Georgia scientist wants to keep an exotic disease from striking one of the most popular cut flowers: gladiolus.
A vegetable field in Tift County is fumigated in preparation for planting. CAES News
A vegetable field in Tift County is fumigated in preparation for planting.
Workshops to help Georgia farmers handle new EPA regs
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new regulations for on-farm soil fumigation.
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
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.
Weather sets record, not Georgia row-crop harvest
Mother Nature blessed Georgia row-crop farmers in 2009 with perfect weather, which helped bring record-setting results. This year, however, she wasn’t as cooperative and sent the hottest April through September on record – the kind of weather that can hurt.
Beverly Sparks, associate dean for Extension, UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. CAES News
Beverly Sparks, associate dean for Extension, UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
UGA Extension rolls out new model for program delivery
Amid a growing epidemic of deep budget cuts to colleges of agriculture across the country, many states have redesigned their teaching, research and extension programs to fit their funding. Each has searched for a perfect model that will serve its clientele as well as the century-old system that made the American agriculture system the world leader in food production.

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