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News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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Avoid the card cons 12/04/03
Finding the right gift for certain folks can be tricky: How do you know which books Aunt Sue has already read? For many, a gift card seems the perfect solution to these dilemmas.
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Birds bite back 12/03/03
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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Hazardous holiday 12/03/03
Preliminary research has found that artificial Christmas trees made with PVC may contain lead.
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Sweet potatoes 11/26/03
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 11/26/03
As you decorate your home for the holidays, consider these colorful complements to the traditional poinsettias and evergreens.
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How sweet it is 11/26/03
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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Winterize pipes 11/25/03
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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Cook those veggies! 11/25/03
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 cash 11/21/03
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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Safer shellfish 11/20/03
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.