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24 Indian meal moth 02/22/07
When the garden season is over and all the dried peas, beans, fruit slices and nuts are stored, watch out. Don't let the harvest you've put so much effort into end up with little "worms" in them in the dark recesses of your pantry.
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25 Laying dormant sod 02/22/07
Planting dormant sod on your home lawn isn't as easy as transplanting trees and ornamentals. Sod roots grow at the soil surface, which makes installing it much riskier.
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26 'Gardening in Georgia' 02/22/07
Georgia gardeners longing for a gardening television show on Georgia growing conditions and soils, look no further. "Gardening in Georgia with Walter Reeves" will be back on Georgia Public Broadcasting with a new season of original shows in April.
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2007 Garden Packet 02/22/07
Here is the 32nd annual spring Garden Packet from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, with 26 features written by 14 CAES faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students to provide timely, valuable gardening information.
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Monitoring plant needs 02/21/07
With the help of a controlled-atmosphere facility and sensory equipment, scientists at the University of Georgia are learning how agricultural crops will react to future climate change.
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Ag Forecast 2007 02/21/07
The final speaker of the Georgia Ag Forecast 2007 breakfast meeting Feb. 20 in Statesboro, Ga., Chuck Lee punctuated the morning with a tough assessment: "You want to know what it's like? I've got four boys, and ain't none of them coming back to the farm."
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Stem cell case 02/15/07
In testimony Feb. 8 before the Georgia General Assembly's Joint Committee on Health and Human Services, Steve Stice explained the value of stem cells in developing treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and Lou Gehrig's diseases, muscular atrophy disease and spinal cord injuries.
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Stem cell hindrances 02/15/07
The old adage, "one man's trash is another man's treasure," rings true in today's stem cell research. Steve Stice finds the promise of a cure for debilitating human injuries and diseases in the waste from fertility clinics.
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Disappearing bees 02/15/07
"This year, what's different is the number of colonies," Jennifer Berry said. "When you have beekeepers who have lost 90 percent of their colonies, and they're commercial and good beekeepers, we know something's wrong. We've had several people that I know have lost thousands of colonies."
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Salmonella outbreak 02/15/07
The recent recall of peanut butter from a processing plant in Georgia should be viewed as an isolated food safety incident, not a ban on all peanut butter, says a University of Georgia expert.