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News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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Green Industry Updates
Anyone who makes a living with a nursery, greenhouse or landscape business needs to keep abreast of the latest new production or cultural practices, plants, products, pests and pesticides to stay competent and competitive. Fortunately, the University of Georgia makes it easy to stay up-to-date.
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Animal waste
Animal waste can be a valuable organic resource or a pollutant. Managing it right and applying the best technologies determine which it may be.
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Hay there now
Rains have perked up Georgia’s drought-parched pastures over the past few weeks. And cattlemen, who scrambled to sustain their herds this summer, are now storing up for the lean winter months.
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D.W. Brooks
Instead of pouring emergency relief money into Africa, Pedro A. Sanchez says that America needs to be teaching Africans how to be self-sustainable. He'll share his ideas at this year’s D.W. Brooks Lecture at the University of Georgia at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3 in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
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Exchanging culture
The Stubbs family spent their summer vacation the typical way: trips to Six Flags Over Georgia, Zoo Atlanta, Stone Mountain and a Braves’ game. Having Japanese student Chinami Irikura along, though, sometimes made it feel like their first trip.
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Insectival
You don't have to be a contestant on a TV reality show to get up close and personal with Madagascar hissing cockroaches.
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Beat the heat
The flowers are all gone. Cracks are forming in the ground. The landscape is looking a little baked at the end of long, hot summer. This is a common problem in the Southern landscape. What can a gardener do to perk up the landscape at this time of the year?
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Fresh figs
Georgians may have to wait a year to pick fresh Georgia strawberries and blueberries, but if figs suit your fancy, it's prime picking time.
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Peanut crop smaller
Due to severely dry, hot weather over most of the summer, the U.S. peanut crop will be smaller then expected. Crop loss is never good, but there is a silver lining to this one, says a University of Georgia economist.
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Grass-fed milk
When Sweet Grass Dairy in Thomasville, Ga., was considering adding milk to its successful goat and cow cheese business, they contacted the University of Georgia Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development.