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Kroger raising funds for new camp cabin Posted on 01/23/08 by Sharon Omahen

Kroger customers can help build a new cabin at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center by buying a $1 paper icon at any of the grocery retailer’s 173 stores across Georgia between now and Feb. 2.

Invasive weed conference Feb. 22 in Tifton Posted on 01/22/08 by Brad Haire

Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council annual conference set for Feb. 22 at the University of Georgia Tifton, Ga., Campus Conference Center.

UGA researcher works to keep plant from extinction Posted on 01/17/08 by Stephanie Schupska

When Hazel Wetzstein holds a tiny Georgia plume plant, she’s not just tending a future shrub. She’s keeping a native species from becoming extinct.

Shocking results on chicken Posted on 01/16/08 by Sharon Omahen

Water is one of the world’s most precious resources. But if you combine it with salt and an electrical charge, it becomes one of the strongest disinfectants, too.

New pecan offers big nuts, disease resistance Posted on 01/16/08 by Lenny Wells

Backyard pecan growers can’t effectively use fungicides to fight diseases in their trees. They must grow varieties with disease resistance. A new one provides protection and a big nut, too.

UGA to hold lecture on food safety threats Jan. 29 Posted on 01/16/08 by Rebecca Ayer

How safe is the food on your plate? Find out at a UGA lecture on food safety at 7 p.m. Jan. 29 in Masters Hall at the UGA Center for Continuing Education.

Flavor of Georgia food contest accepting entries Posted on 01/10/08 by Stephanie Schupska

On March 18, the University of Georgia Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development and Department of Food Science and Technology will reveal the winners of the second Flavor of Georgia contest.

Peaches welcomed cold snap, but need more Posted on 01/10/08 by Brad Haire

Georgia peach farmers welcomed the cold snap that rolled through the state the first of this year. Their trees need more, though, but they probably won’t get it, says a University of Georgia fruit specialist.

Pine beetles attracted to weak trees Posted on 01/10/08 by J. Faith Peppers

There was a feast in Georgia's Oconee National Forest last year. Southern pine beetles were munching away on weak, old trees. And the drought may have issued the invitation to dinner, a University of Georgia expert says.

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