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Holiday turkey can bite back if you're not careful
While you're feasting your eyes on your holiday turkey and pondering biting into it, it's already "thinking" about biting you back. If you're not careful, it will.
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Some holiday trees, greenery may contain lead
Preliminary research has found that artificial Christmas trees made with PVC may contain lead.
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Sweet potatoes: The forgotten veggie
Outside of the holidays, sweet potatoes tend to be a forgotten vegetable, mentally packed away with the decorations. Bob Jarret, though, thinks about them all the time. He can call most of the 700-plus varieties by name.
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Holiday plants complement poinsettias, evergreens
As you decorate your home for the holidays, consider these colorful complements to the traditional poinsettias and evergreens.
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The scoop on soil: how sweet it is
Some things you just know are sweet -- ice cream, apple pie, clean babies. Farmers and gardeners sometimes refer to their soil as sweet and even speak of sweetening it.
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Don't wait to winterize outdoor pipes, sprinklers
Homeowners should winterize outdoor pipes and lawn sprinklers soon. A few precautions now can save a lot of time and headaches come springtime.
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Thoroughly cook veggies, says food safety expert
Cook those green onions. That's the word from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and food safety experts following recent hepatitis A virus outbreaks in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Pennsylvania that have been associated with raw or undercooked green onions.
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Cotton prices high, government support low
The U.S. government will send little to no price-support help to cotton farmers this year. But cotton farmers don’t mind. They don’t need any help this year.
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UGA researcher to study parasites in shellfish
University of Georgia parasitologist Ynes Ortega will lead a research team looking into whether parasites that are filtered from the water into oysters and other shellfish are infectious to humans.

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