Horticulture Seminar Series for Graduate Student Research - Fall and Spring Semesters
The Horticulture Seminar Series will resume on Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Learn more about our graduate student research through recording of past seminars available on this page.
Careers in Horticulture
A degree in horticulture will prepare you for success in a variety of fields, from sales to research, with job opportunities in areas such as floriculture, nursery crops management, landscape horticulture, and fruit, vegetable and nut crop management.
CAES News
CAES News
CAES researchers examine blueberry quality issues for Georgia producers
A multidisciplinary team of University of Georgia agriculture experts are working to determine causes and solutions to postharvest quality problems that have hit Georgia’s blueberry growers hard in recent seasons. Funded by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Office of Research and UGA Cooperative Extension, the project will address “major issues” with fruit quality, particularly in rabbiteye blueberries.
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Field to jar: UGA researchers combat aflatoxin contamination in peanuts
On a warm morning in mid-September, tractor-drawn peanut-digging equipment burrowed beneath the peanut vines on the first of Tift County peanut farmer Greg Davis’s fields. This is the day peanut producers — and University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agents and UGA peanut researchers — work all season for.
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About Us
Through student education, our goal is to develop and disseminate new knowledge that leads to cost-effective and profitable production and improved postharvest handling. As a department, we strive to facilitate the application of horticultural commodities and services that conserve natural resources while protecting and enhancing the environment.
UGA Trial Gardens 2022-2023 Internship
Help the UGA Trial Gardens flourish this season!
If you are interested in an internship with the UGA Trial Gardens during the 2022-2023 academic school year, email trial-gardens@uga.edu for more information or for permission to register for HORT 3930 for credit.
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UGArden - More that just a farm
Check out UGArden's new video about its fight against food insecurity and join the cause today!
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'Smart' Greenhouses could slash electricity costs
A lighting control system could reduce greenhouse electricity costs by as much as 33%.