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Safe well water 06/22/10 Paul Pugliese
Clean drinking water is a top priority for families. But homeowners who rely solely on well water can be open to certain risks.
The early summer following an El Niño winter climate pattern – like we had this past winter -- is typically warmer and drier than normal. With the warmer temperatures and drier-than-normal conditions, soil moisture will quickly decrease over the next two months. CAES News
Georgia summer 06/15/10 David E. Stooksbury, Ph.D.
Georgia’s summer will likely be warmer and drier than normal through at least early August. Temperatures and rainfall in late summer and early fall will depend on the number and tracks of tropical weather systems.
In this file photo, an array of pesticides are lined on the shelves of a Griffin, Ga., feed and seed store. CAES News
Pesticide training 06/10/10 Stephanie Schupska
Spring rains and summertime heat have sparked insects and lawn diseases across the state. That may send some landscape lovers looking for someone to apply a few chemicals to protect their interests.
Golf ball sized hail CAES News
May heats Georgia 06/09/10 Pam Knox
Georgia was a hot and wet place to live in May.
Mariana Cruz of the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru, attends the 2010 DSSAT workshop on the UGA campus in Griffin, Ga. CAES News
Virtual farming software helps growers 05/25/10 Sharon Dowdy
Farmville and Farmtown computer programs lets people pretend to be farmers. A program developed by university scientists lets researchers grow virtual crops, too, but in a real effort to advise farmers on how to save money and resources.
Tracey Pu, left, stand with her teacher Susan Burger after being named the winner of the UGA GreenWay logo design contest. Pu is a 10th grader at Oconee County High School in Watkinsville, Ga. CAES News
Green winner 05/13/10 Stephanie Schupska
Eighteen high school students recently put pen to paper and mouse to design programs to create the best logo for the new UGA GreenWay website. And the winner was Tracey Pu, a 10th grader at Oconee County High School.
Augusta, Columbus and Savannah all broke their all-time December precipitation records. CAES News
Warm April 05/06/10 Pam Knox
The combination of a cool March with a warm early April compressed Georgia’s pollen season, leading to higher-than-normal pollen counts across the state in April.
Local, state and national officials ceremonially broke ground May 3 at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus for the Agriculture Energy Innovation Center, which will be the centerpiece of an initiative to find ways to create energy-saving strategies or technologies that can be applied in a real-world way on a farm. CAES News
Energy innovations 05/06/10 Brad Haire
Farmers want to do things efficiently. It makes sound business sense. Ground was ceremonially broken in Tifton, Ga., May 3 for a center to help them produce and use energy more efficiently on the farm.
Fawn with spots grazes on a landscape in North Georgia. CAES News
Deer-tolerant Plants 05/06/10 April Reese Sorrow
Spring is the perfect time to add new flowers and trees to your home landscape. However, deer may love the new addition as much as you do.
From late March to mid-June the fluffy silvery-white seed heads of cogongrass wave like flags marking infestations in forests, along roadways and other places. During this time, no other grass in Georgia has that kind of seed head. CAES News
Invasive cogongrass 05/05/10 David J. Moorhead
This spring marks the fifth year that the Georgia Cogongrass Task Force has been educating landowners and land managers about the risk cogongrass, a highly invasive Federal Noxious Weed, poses to our forests, roadsides, fields and natural areas across the state.