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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.
John McKissick gives the 2011 Ag Forecast in Gainesville, Ga., on Monday, Jan. 24. CAES News
Ag Forecast 2011 01/27/11 April Reese Sorrow
Georgia farmers are staring at record prices this year for the crops they grow. But high crop prices aren’t good for all, particularly for those who raise animals, said a University of Georgia economist.
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AG Forecast 2011 12/28/10 April Reese Sorrow
The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences announces its fifth annual Ag Forecast Series. The sessions will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 24 in Gainesville, Jan. 25 in Tifton, Jan. 27 in Statesboro, Feb.
MarketMaker screen shot. CAES News
Georgia MarketMaker 12/01/10 April Reese Sorrow
In 2001, the Wills family began selling loaves of all-natural bread to friends in the north Georgia mountains. To grow their business, in 2008, they turned to a marketing tool developed by the University of Georgia. Now, they can’t keep up with demand.
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Ag Forecast 2011 11/04/10 April Reese Sorrow
Agriculture is the food you eat, clothes you wear and the fuel that runs your life. When these products are made locally, it helps communities thrive.
Dan MacLean demonstrates the easiest way to pick a pomegranate - with a pocketknife. CAES News
Georgia farmers getting taste for pomegranates 10/28/10 Stephanie Schupska
In southeast Georgia, an area of the state known for its blueberries, Brantley Morris of Morris Nursery in Alma, Ga., gets calls at least once a week from farmers who want to grow pomegranate trees.
Bacterial leaf scorch, caused by the bacterium Xyella fastidiosa, causes what looks like burns on the blueberry leaves. CAES News
Blueberry disease 10/21/10 April Reese Sorrow
Blueberries passed peaches as the state’s top moneymaking fruit a few years ago, worth more than $100 million on the farm annually. But new diseases threaten to hamper its rise, says a University of Georgia fruit specialist.
Jean Kinsey, a professor at the University of Minnesota, gives the 2010 D.W. Brooks Lecture on "Feeding Billions: Local Solutions or Global Distribution" in Athens, Ga. CAES News
World hunger 10/07/10 J. Faith Peppers
Jean Kinsey suggested her 2010 D.W. Brooks Lecture might well have been titled “A Tale of Two Food Cultures.” Her talk this week in Athens, Ga., on “Feeding Billions: Local Solutions or Global Distributions” concluded that sustainably feeding the world will require both.
UGA Cooperative Extension coordinators Forrest Connelly (Stephens County), left, and Bob Waldorf (Banks County) sort certificates before handing them out to Master Goat Farmer participates. CAES News
Goat meat demand increasing in Georgia 09/16/10 Stephanie Schupska
A boom in demand and an economic need to diversify has many Georgians looking to produce goat meat. To meet the informational need, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension recently graduated its first ever class of Master Goat Farmers.