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Farmers fight enemies 08/15/02
Second only to actually buying the seed for a crop, fighting diseases is the most essential thing a farmer has to do to grow a successful crop in Georgia, said Bob Kemerait, a plant pathologist with the University of Georgia Extension Service.
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'Wait till next year' 08/14/02
No, this isn't a football story. Usually the "wait till next year" line comes at the end of the season. Wayne McLaurin's lament is that with the start of football season, his favorite shopping place for vegetables, the downtown Athens farmers market, no longer exists.
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Looking back 08/14/02
As the Pentagon and World Trade Center tragedies' first anniversary approaches, prepare for some of those post-attack feelings and fears to resurface. "Anniversaries of tragedies often dredge up painful memories," says UGA human development specialist Don Bower.
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Hot winter squash 08/14/02
The term 'winter squash' is a bit misleading. Storage squash would be more accurate. Winter squash are types that are selected for their ability to be stored. Our ancestors spent long winters relying on food like this.
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Canola prospects bright 08/13/02
Paul Raymer's fields of dreams have canola growing in them all over Georgia. After 15 years of seeing sputtering starts a few acres at a time, he's convinced it's on the verge of happening now if it's ever going to happen at all.
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Non-GMO canola 08/13/02
Most canola varieties are genetically modified for herbicide resistance, said UGA crop scientist Paul Raymer. But none of those GMO varieties are registered for use in the Southern United States. "We can produce non-GMO canola," Raymer said.
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Hot House? 08/08/02
It's August, and summer's still out there. Georgia temperatures hover around the mid-90s and can easily ease into triple digits. And chickens, much like you, feel the heat.
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'Gardening in Georgia' 08/08/02
How do you get five apple varieties on one tree? On the Aug. 24 "Gardening in Georgia," host Walter Reeves explores the answer: budding and grafting. 'Gardening in Georgia' airs twice on Saturdays, at noon and 7 p.m., on Georgia Public Television.
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Fill 'er up? 08/07/02
Bill Fox has pleasant memories of the first alternative-fuel buses he rode as a University of Georgia student. "Back in the 1980s, alternative fuel was used in buses for campus transit," said Fox, now director of the university's motor pool. "They were fueled by peanut oil and smelled like a big Nutter Butter rolling down the road."
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High school researchers 08/07/02
For six weeks this summer, 23 high school students in Athens, Ga., and 18 in Griffin, Ga., researched everything from termites to aflatoxin to stem cells in University of Georgia labs. The students are part of the University of Georgia's Young Scholars Program.