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Avoiding infestation is key for corn growers to maintain grain quality, especially when dealing with the threat of the maize weevil, the most dangerous pest a corn grower faces every year. CAES News
Kernel Killers 04/10/14 Clint Thompson
For Georgia corn producers, chances of an insect infestation in grain storage are much higher in late summer or early fall. A University of Georgia entomologist says keeping corn cool and dry is the key to keeping weevil away.
March 2014 was drier than normal over most parts of the state. CAES News
March Climate 2014 04/09/14 Pam Knox
March in Georgia was fairly calm, but colder than normal across the entire state with temperatures ranging from between 2 to 4 degrees below average.
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Sumter Forest Study 04/07/14 Sandi Martin
Looking back, it's easy to see where farmers in the 1800s went wrong. Attempting to grow profits from a lush environment, landowners cleared entire forests in the South to make room for agricultural farmland. But primitive agricultural techniques scarred the landscape, and when the profits dried up, they abandoned the barren land. Now University of Georgia researchers want to understand the ongoing repercussions of a bygone era.
Beef cattle graze on a pasture on the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center in Blairsville, Ga. CAES News
Blairsville Cattle Field Day 04/03/14 Sharon Dowdy
Georgia cattle farmers will learn the latest research-based information at the annual University of Georgia Mountain Beef Cattle Field Day on April 11 in Blairsville, Ga.
UGA peanut geneticist Peggy Ozias-Akins, director of the UGA Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, examines a peanut blossom. Ozias-Akin's lab on the UGA Tifton Campus focuses on female reproduction and gene transfer in plants. CAES News
Peanut Genomes 04/02/14 Merritt Melancon
The International Peanut Genome Initiative — a multinational group of crop geneticists who have been working in tandem for the last several years — has successfully sequenced the peanut’s genome.
Cotton is dumped into a trailer at the Gibbs Farm in Tifton on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. CAES News
Farm Bill 03/27/14 Clint Thompson
U.S. Farm Bill education will be the focus of an upcoming series of meetings coordinated by University of Georgia agricultural economists.
Despite a few nights with single-digit low temperatures, Georgia experienced a near normal winter. CAES News
Average Winter 03/20/14 Pam Knox
Despite some bone-chilling days with single digit lows, Georgia’s winter was about average in both temperature and precipitation.
St. Augustinegrass seedheads CAES News
Grass Facts 03/13/14 Merritt Melancon
What type of plant makes up most of the lawns in Georgia? If you shrugged and answered “grass,” you’re not alone. Homeowners spend hours mowing and treating their lawns, but many don’t know much about the plants that make up the green expanse between their driveways and front doors.
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Weather Radio and More 03/06/14 Merritt Melancon
For decades families have relied on NOAA weather radios to alert them to hazardous weather conditions near their homes. Updates in technology now give the public options for staying abreast of weather conditions while on the go.
Tif-Blair centipedegrass CAES News
Cold-damaged turf 03/06/14 Sharon Dowdy
Lawns in Metro Atlanta and north Georgia counties covered in warm-season grasses like centipedegrass or St. Augustinegrass will likely show signs of cold damage this spring as a result of the recent snow and ice storms, says University of Georgia Extension turfgrass specialist Clint Waltz.