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Scott Angle, dean of the UGA College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Barry Martin, and Ronnie Barentine, County Extension Coordinator for Pulaski County. Angle and Barentine visited Martin's farm near Hawkinsville after Martin was named the 2012 Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Farmer of the Year. CAES News
Public Service and Outreach Awards 03/21/13 Merritt Melancon
Ronnie Barentine, extension coordinator for Dooly County, has spent the last three decades developing ways to make Georgia’s largest industry more efficient and profitable. He’s also made it more sustainable.
St. Augustinegrass seedheads CAES News
St. Augustinegrass 03/21/13 Clint Waltz, Becky Griffin
St. Augustinegrass has long been admired in the southern part of Georgia for its attractive blue-green color. It thrives there due to the warm weather and the sandy soils. Happily, many homeowners north of Atlanta are also discovering the grass.
Georgia currently has more than 500 volunteer weather observers submitting their precipitation measurements to the Community Collaborative Rain, Snow and Hail Network CAES News
Who wants a rain gauge? 03/14/13 Pam Knox
This April will mark the fifth anniversary of Georgia’s Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, part of a non-profit network of volunteer precipitation observers across the U.S. who provide daily rainfall information to the public.
A pair of beets plants are shown on the Lang Farm in Tifton, Ga. CAES News
Beets for biofuels 03/07/13 Clint Thompson
Beets are producing “sweet” results with researchers at the University of Georgia.
The swath of middle Georgia that was hit hardest by recent drought conditions saw well over its normal amount of rainfall this February. CAES News
February rains 03/06/13 Pam Knox
February brought copious rain to most of Georgia, drastically reducing drought conditions in all but the southeast corner of the state. Cloudy conditions associated with the rain kept temperatures near or below normal for the month.
Camilla Borgato, a University of Padova currently working at UGA's Tifton Campus, is studying sampling strategies to track food borne pathogens in irrigation water. She's studying in the United States through the Trans Atlantic Precision Agricultural Consortium. CAES News
TransAtlantic Precision Agriculture 02/21/13 Merritt Melancon
Thousands of miles may separate Georgia and Europe, but farmers on both sides of the Atlantic face similar problems: dwindling water supplies, rising expenses, increasing competition from the developing world and the need to produce more from their land while protecting the environment.
Nine University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences graduates were honored on this year's Bulldog 100 list of the fastest growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni. Pictured at the Bulldog 100 event are four of the honorees - Ron Holt, Larry Cunningham, Jack Hartley and Timothy Campbell. CAES News
Bulldog 100 aggies 02/14/13 Sharon Dowdy
Nine University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences graduates were honored on this year’s Bulldog 100 list of the fastest growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni.
Green tomatoes infected with Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus. CAES News
Fighting TSWV 02/07/13 Clint Thompson
Once a major threat to the tomato industry, the thrips-vectored tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) has been unable to penetrate the vegetable’s latest line of defense — resistant cultivars.
Food hubs aggregate produce from small farmers to meet larger produce orders, like those placed by schools, retailers and restaurants. CAES News
Food hub survey 01/31/13 Merritt Melancon
Some Georgia farmers are looking to food hubs as a way to better market their produce and make the process of getting their produce to market more efficiently.
FACS Agent Denise Everson, from left, 4-H Program Assistant Joey Bristol, FACS intern Amanda Burnside, ANR Agent Monte Stephens, Secretary Renelle Ramirez, 4-H Agent Lauren Healey and ANR intern Patrick Savelle stand in the hallway of the the new Oconee County Extension office in Watkinsville. CAES News
Oconee Extension Office 01/17/13 Merritt Melancon
The Oconee County Cooperative Extension started the new year in a new home. They have moved to the J. Phil Campbell Sr. Natural Resource Conservation Center, which has been operated by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences as a research and education center since August 2012.