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News from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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Boring Pests. 03/08/00
While the pretty part of spring is bursting into color, a much less seemly part is boring into many of the trees Georgians value, say University of Georgia experts.
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Great Soils. 03/08/00
Vegetable plants grow best in a fertile, loamy soil that drains well. Sandy-loam soils, well supplied with organic matter, are easily worked and quite productive. Unfortunately, most Georgia gardens don't have such soils.
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Catfish Festival. 03/08/00
For a weekend in Wrightsville, Ga., the catfish will be king. Former President Jimmy Carter's March 24 formal opening of the Catfish INT processing plant will trigger the three-day Catfish Festival and Trade Show.
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SPC Course. 03/08/00
Poultry plants already use Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point plans to ensure the safety of their products. Now, they can use Statistical Process Control to make their HACCP plans even better.
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Amnesty Day. 03/08/00
Do you have unlabeled or unusable pesticides? Pesticides no longer registered for ornamentals and turf? The Georgia Department of Agriculture is providing a chemical amnesty day, Georgia Clean Day 2000, March 22 in Atlanta.
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Butterfly Garden. 03/05/00
One of the most popular gardening specialties is butterfly and hummingbird gardening. The key is to select the widest array of nectar-producing flowers you can.
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Fighting Against Parasites. 03/02/00
Ynes Ortega is a key addition to the University of Georgia research team at the Griffin, Ga., Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement. Ortega is one of a handful of researchers in the world studying parasites on food.
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Azalea Lessons. 03/01/00
The little azaleas in spring nursery and garden center displays, which often seem more bloom than plant, can teach you one of life's happier lessons. If you have young azaleas or have pruned back your old azaleas, take a hint from those container dazzlers, says University of Georgia expert Mel Garber.
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Safer Family. 03/01/00
Whether your biggest concern is your farm or your family, an Atlanta workshop April 12-13 will address environmental concerns of interest to you.
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Great Shrubs. 02/23/00
Some new spring shrubs will reward your landscape labors. They can be used as beautiful flowering backgrounds behind annual and perennial beds. They can act as single specimens or as stand-alone shrub borders.