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News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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Peanut blaster 11/06/03
For the best tasting and most sellable peanuts, farmers must harvest their peanuts at the right time. A Georgia scientist has developed a very simple method farmers can use to know when to bring in the crop.
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Raindrop life lessons 11/06/03
What we do, or allow to happen, in our landscape affects water quality. Water runs downhill, and we all live downhill from somebody. Do your best to be part of the water quality solution and not the problem.
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Nanoscale biosensors 11/06/03
Diabetics who must frequently monitor their blood sugar levels can take heart. University of Georgia research engineers are developing tiny sensors that could eliminate the need for all those finger sticks.
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Beekeeper's 'heart' 11/04/03
Myron Schaer, a self-taught apiarist, met UGA researcher Keith Delaplane through the Georgia Beekeeper's Association. He called on Delaplane a few times when he came across a problem he couldn't solve. Apparently, Schaer truly appreciated the advice as he left a $200,000 estate donation and $3,000 worth of beekeeping equipment to Delaplane's research program.
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J.W. Fanning Lecture 11/03/03
The 19th annual J.W. Fanning Lecture will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. The first Outstanding Agricultural Economist Awards will be presented at a luncheon and awards ceremony to follow.
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Friendly farming 10/30/03
When people think of farming, images of freshly plowed fields often come to mind. But that picture is changing. More farmers are learning that starting with a clean slate may not be the best way to farm.
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Future fumigant needed 10/30/03
Scientists in Georgia are developing a system that uses plants like mustard, collards and turnips to replace a soon-to-be-banned farm fumigant.
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Critical exemption 10/30/03
Georgia vegetable growers will be allowed to use methyl bromide for at least one extra year.
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Rivers Alive 10/30/03
Don't think for a moment that the junk the Rivers Alive volunteers cleaned out of West Point Lake came downstream from Heard County. Heard County had its own Rivers Alive cleanup.
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Prozac slows development 10/29/03
Researchers at the University of Georgia have found that low-level exposure to a common class of antidepressants found in streams and ponds delays both development in fish and metamorphosis in frogs.