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Buckwheat is an unusually fast-growing plant produced by commercial agriculture for its grain-like seeds. In the home garden, it is one of the best summer cover/green manure crops available. CAES News
Beautiful Buckwheat 07/28/16 Josh Fuder
Buckwheat adds nitrogen to garden plots, produces beautiful flowers and delicious pancakes. An unusually fast-growing plant, buckwheat is produced by commercial agriculture for its grain-like seeds. In the home garden, it is one of the best summer cover/green manure crops available.
Tim Grey, UGA weed scientist, speaks during the Plains field day held in 2014. CAES News
Plains Field Day 07/28/16 Clint Thompson
An upcoming field day on Wednesday, Aug. 10, at the University of Georgia Southwest Georgia Research and Education Center (SWERC) in Plains, Georgia, will showcase cutting-edge agriculture research to farmers, UGA Cooperative Extension county agents and industry personnel.
Beginning farmer training through the UGA Cooperative Extension Journeyman Farmer Certificate Program starts in August. CAES News
Beginning Farmers Training 07/27/16 Merritt Melancon
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension is set to offer a second year of the Journeyman Farmer training for beginning and young farmers this August.
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Heat Stressed Landscapes 07/27/16 Sidney L. Mullis
Drooping shrubs and brown lawns come with the territory during Georgia summers. While there’s not much that homeowners can do to perk up their plants in the short term, there are some ways to safeguard your landscape against long-term heat damage.
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Garden Heat Safety 07/27/16 Becky Griffin
Summer heat can be dangerous, especially with the heat and humidity that we are experiencing this summer.
As of this week, 2016 has entered the top 10 in terms of years with the most consecutive days over 95 degrees. The hot and dry conditions are starting to take a toll on farmers fields, cattle and homeowners. CAES News
Heat Wave 07/27/16 Merritt Melancon
As of this week, 2016 has entered the top 10 in terms of years with the most consecutive days over 95 degrees.
UGA graduate student Jamie Morgan tests the water in an algae-filled pond on Bill Atkinson's farm in Dacula. CAES News
Tainted Water 07/27/16 Merritt Melancon
With the summer heat and sporadic rainfall, conditions are right for farm ponds to become inundated with harmful algal blooms.
A herbicide trial on the turfgrass research plots at the University of Georgia campus in Griffin, Georgia. CAES News
Turfgrass Research Field Day 07/21/16
Whether you're a homeowner, new landscape company owner or a veteran golf course superintendent, you'll find the latest research-based information on growing and maintaining turfgrass at the University of Georgia Turfgrass Research Field Day.
A field of dryland peanuts in Tift County. CAES News
Dryland Peanuts 07/21/16 Clint Thompson
Until more rain falls on Georgia’s parched dryland peanut crop, the University of Georgia peanut agronomist Scott Monfort says peanut farmers should stop applying other treatments to their crops.