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Most Georgia farmers plant more than one crop during a season, usually managing a combination of peanuts, cotton, corn or soybeans. Across the board, they are looking at record or record-tying yields in 2009. CAES News
Peanut vote 03/28/11
Georgia peanut producers have until April 15 to vote and return their ballots in a referendum to increase their assessment by $1 per ton of peanuts they sell. The assessment funds Georgia Peanut Commission’s promotion, research, education and communication programs.
Most Georgia farmers plant more than one crop during a season, usually managing a combination of peanuts, cotton, corn or soybeans. Across the board, they are looking at record or record-tying yields in 2009. CAES News
Bioactive food in a shell 03/24/11 Sharon Dowdy
Eating peanuts with their skins on is not only less messy, it’s much healthier for you, too, according to a University of Georgia food scientist.
Nathan Smith is a farm economist with the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension on the UGA campus in Tifton, Ga. CAES News
Guarded optimism 03/10/11 Nathan B. Smith
Farming is a volatile business, one with enthusiastic highs matched with devastating falls.
Ed Kanemasu, CAES director of global programs, distributes peanut butter to children on the road from Cange to Terrier Rouge, Haiti, March 18. CAES News
Helping Haiti 01/20/11 Brad Haire
Soon after the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake shocked Haiti, crumbling its capitol and killing an estimated 250,000 people, a team of experts from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences traveled there to assess how the college could help foster sustainable agriculture.
Cotton is harvested in Colquitt County, Georgia. Cotton prices for the 2010 crop are around $1.20 per pound, the highest ever. The historic cotton prices aren't expected to last for next year's crop, but they are expected to be good for most Georgia-grown row crops. CAES News
High prices 10/28/10 Brad Haire
Cotton prices right now are the highest in history. Prices for other Georgia-grown row crops are riding high, too. And the ride could last well into next year, say University of Georgia farm economists.
Sun shines brightly through foliage. CAES News
Georgia Weather Update 10/07/10 Pam Knox
September was hot and dry in Georgia, with many locations setting daytime temperature records. Several locations had the hottest April-through-September period on record.
Tobacco farmer Fred Wetherington checks the moisture level of tobacco in his barn in Valdosta, Ga. CAES News
Viral villains 09/16/10 Brad Haire
If a disease outbreak in a field could be considered a crime scene, then the “CSI” lab for such viral suspects is on the University of Georgia campus in Tifton, Ga., where samples collected from the scene are sent and tested. The culprits are always identified.
A bean plataspid crawls on the side of a home in northeast Georgia. CAES News
Kudzu bug multiplies and spreads 09/16/10 Sharon Dowdy
Just shy of a year from when it was first spotted in northeast Georgia, the insect now commonly called the “kudzu bug” continues to mystify homeowners and agricultural researchers.
Most Georgia farmers plant more than one crop during a season, usually managing a combination of peanuts, cotton, corn or soybeans. Across the board, they are looking at record or record-tying yields in 2009. CAES News
Georgia crops 08/26/10 Brad Haire
Georgia’s tobacco and pecan crop are on pace for a surprisingly good year. Not surprisingly, though, above-normal temperatures have smothered the state and taken a toll on some row crops, like peanut and cotton.
CAES News
Crops like recent weather 07/15/10 Brad Haire
Rain has hit on target and temperatures have been reasonable. So far, Georgia row-crops like what they’ve been getting.