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Spring plant sale set for first two weekends in April Posted on 03/26/09 by Stephanie Schupska

Gardeners, grab your checkbooks and clear your trunks. The University of Georgia Horticulture Club will hold their annual spring plant sale starting April 3 in Athens, Ga.

Beef cattle field day set for April 15 Posted on 03/25/09 by Sharon Dowdy

Current cattle farmers and those who want to become one will find useful knowledge at the annual University of Georgia Mountain Beef Cattle Field Day April 15 in Blairsville, Ga.

UGA receives $959,000 for peanut research Posted on 03/24/09 by Brad Haire

At its March board meeting, the Georgia Peanut Commission awarded $1 million to peanut researchers in Georgia, including $959,000 to the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

UGA 4-H club is best in nation Posted on 03/19/09 by April Reese Sorrow

The Collegiate 4-H Club of the University of Georgia was recognized as the National Collegiate 4-H Club of the Year at the organization’s annual conference held last month in Minneapolis, Minn.

Cheese wins big at 2009 UGA food products contest Posted on 03/19/09 by Stephanie Schupska

Caroline Harless had planned to be in Swainsboro, Ga., on March 17 to prepare for hunters arriving at her Flat Creek Lodge. Instead, she stayed in Atlanta, where her Flat Creek Aztec Cheddar cheese won the third annual Flavor of Georgia food products contest.

Environmentally friendly agriculture Posted on 03/19/09 by Sharon Dowdy

Twenty years ago, Terry Chandler and his wife, Deborah, moved their family to a 200-acre farm in Madison County. The land was in terrible shape. The only thing it had was potential. They worked hard to improve it, and for their efforts Gov. Sonny Perdue awarded them the fourth annual Governor’s Agricultural Environmental Stewardship Award.

Coca-Cola executive to deliver UGA Woodroof Lecture Posted on 03/19/09 by April Reese Sorrow

Rhona Applebaum, a food-industry leader with The Coca-Cola Company, will deliver the 2009 Woodroof Lecture April 2 at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga.

Growing, marketing and drinking covered Posted on 03/18/09 by Allie Byrd

Seeing University of Georgia students jump-starting a day with a cup of coffee isn’t unusual. However, a professor requiring them to do so is.

30-years of service to the state Posted on 03/12/09 by Marco T. Fonseca

In 1979, University of Georgia horticulturist Butch Ferree traveled to Washington to learn about a popular outreach program in that state that was spreading throughout the nation’s land-grant colleges. Thirty years later, a similar program has helped more than 7,000 Georgians become gardening masters.

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