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UGA helps create course for garden center workers Posted on 04/09/04 by Cat Holmes

The demand for well-trained people at nurseries and home garden centers has grown greatly in recent years. And the world's largest home improvement retailer has turned to the University of Georgia for its horticulture training needs.

Native landscape options plentiful in Georgia Posted on 04/06/04 by Brad Haire

Georgia has many native plant species that can be viable, low-maintenance choices for home landscapes.

How do you deal with bees in the garden? Posted on 04/06/04 by Paul A. Thomas

Fruit trees, farm crops and almost all native plants depend on bees, our best pollinators, to reproduce. But that doesn't mean bees are welcome in everyone's garden.

U.S. Secretary for Food Safety lectures April 22 Posted on 04/01/04 by Morgan L Roan

Dr. Elsa A. Murano, secretary of Food Safety and Inspection Service for the United States Department of Agriculture, will deliver this year’s Woodroof Lecture at the University of Georgia in Athens.

UGA hosts international meeting of ag universities Posted on 04/01/04 by Cat Holmes

The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will host the fifth annual Inter-University Consortium for Agricultural and Related Sciences in Europe/National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges in Athens April 6-9.

Vegetable growers get methyl bromide reprieve Posted on 04/01/04 by Brad Haire

The United States has been officially granted a one-year reprieve from a United Nations program set to phase out the use of methyl bromide. This is good news to the Georgia vegetable growers who depend on the fumigant to grow many of their crops.

Mountain Beef Cattle Field Day set for April 21 Posted on 04/01/04 by Morgan L Roan

With timely information and some of the state's best scenery, a day at the Mountain Beef Cattle Field Day April 21 near Blairsville, Ga., is bound to please anyone who raises cattle for a living or a hobby.

New systems improve animal disease tracking Posted on 04/01/04 by Sharon Omahen

In the wake of the nation’s scare over its first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as "mad cow disease," state and federal officials are stepping up measures to track foreign animal diseases.

Cicadas emerging soon almost old enough to vote Posted on 03/31/04 by Morgan L Roan

The cicadas soon filling the north Georgia woods with "song" won't quite be old enough to vote in this year's elections. But after spending 17 years maturing underground, they'll be among the oldest living insects in the world.

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