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"Your Southern Garden" host Walter Reeves. CAES News
Your Southern Garden
Learn about pruning trees and azaleas, and all about honeybees on "Your Southern Garden" with Walter Reeves April 16 at noon and 6:30 p.m. on Georgia Public Broadcasting.
The eye of a deer fly. CAES News
Spring sting
People swarm outdoors in the spring to garden, grill out or have fun in the sun. But this can become prime times and places for insect attacks, says a University of Georgia bug expert.
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Temik times out
U.S. farmers and farm experts knew they’d soon lose a popular chemical used to control major crop pests. But the end has come sooner than they expected.
UGA Griffin campus research technician Sherrie Stevens counts leaf miner damage on Gerbera daisies in a greenhouse in Upson County, Ga. CAES News
Scientists release wasps to fight plant's enemy
University of Georgia scientists are counting on a tiny wasp to save the popular Gerbera daisy from being destroyed by an insect that finds its leaves tasty.
Rodeo referees wait for the next event to begin at the Great Southland Stampede Rodeo. CAES News
Great Southland Stampede Rodeo
Whether you’re tough enough to wear pink, have children who love baby animals or want to holler for calf ropers and bull riders, the University of Georgia’s Block and Bridle Club is gearing up for you. The 37th annual Great Southland Stampede Rodeo rolls into Athens, Ga., April 14-16.
Wayne Parrott, a crop and soil sciences professor at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, checks out the growth of a few of his soybean plants. CAES News
Soybean fungus
Soybeans are critical to the U.S. economy. But the third largest crop in the nation has an enemy eating away at it, a fungus in the same family as the one that caused the infamous Irish Potato Famine.
Beef cattle graze on a pasture on the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center in Blairsville, Ga. CAES News
Field day scheduled at Georgia Mountain R&E Center
Georgia cattle farmers, both large and small scale, will learn useful research-based information at the annual University of Georgia Mountain Beef Cattle Field Day April 20 in Blairsville, Ga.
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
Peanut vote
Georgia peanut producers have until April 15 to vote and return their ballots in a referendum to increase their assessment by $1 per ton of peanuts they sell. The assessment funds Georgia Peanut Commission’s promotion, research, education and communication programs.
"Your Southern Garden" host Walter Reeves. CAES News
Your Southern Garden
“Your Southern Garden” with Walter Reeves, a regional educational television show, will start its 2011 season April 2, just in time to get Southern gardeners geared up and ready for spring planting.
Judges sample products at the 2011 Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest. CAES News
2011 Flavor of Georgia
Jam of Love is more than a business name for Emily Myers and Gina Bodell of Dunwoody: It’s a philosophy. Each batch of their traditional, all-natural jams are made in small batches and poured into jars by hand.