News Stories - Page 656

Among the garden set, a new plant variety is almost as exciting as a new baby's arrival. After all, a new plant is a new baby of sorts. What most home gardeners don't know, though, is how long that new "baby" took to be born.

After five years of drought, Georgia came into this spring with a backlog of unhatched mosquito eggs. Now, suddenly, the state is facing a mosquito "baby boom."

Each year, Jim Midcap sees some special plants that would look and smell great in his own garden. This year, he kept a list.

They've changed how and where people live. They influence law and how people are governed. And as freer global trade forces the world into closer contact, plant diseases will continue to play a major role, says a University of Georgia expert.

Peaches, pecans, peanuts and poultry are often at the forefront when Georgia agriculture is in the news. But those who build and maintain golf courses in Southern climes regularly turn to another Georgia product without which the sport couldn't be played: turf grass.

Spring has sprung and summer's hot on its heels, but before you head out to walk barefoot in the grass, take some time to check it out for problems.

Science doesn't have to be complicated. It just has to be effective.

Typically, the work of Gary Pederson's staff goes unnoticed and unappreciated. But if the unthinkable should ever happen and all the crops in the United States had to be replenished, they would be overnight heroes.

ATHENS, Ga -- As part of an ongoing strategic planning process which is focusing programs and resources on the needs of the state's agriculture industry in the 21st century, the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will reorganize and consolidate operations at some of its research and extension facilities throughout the state. The changes allow an immediate shift of resources to high-priority programs.

Mike Isbell finally got enough resolve to clean out the garage, and he could tell spring is here by all the pine pollen he swept out. Spring-cleaning time is here. Or spring "debugging" might be another way to look at it.