Category Archives: Agriculture

Agriculture

UGA horticulture scientist Ye Juliet Chu is the latest peanut researcher in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to produce three breeding lines from peanut’s wild relatives

 Agriculture January 20, 2022

Peanut researchers create disease-resistant hybrids

CAES researchers Mussie Habteselassie, Bochra Bahri and David Jespersen are testing the benefits of using nanobubble-infused irrigation water to more efficiently grow sods and maintain turfgrass. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)

 Agriculture January 13, 2022

Nanobubble technology may improve soil health, sustainability in the turfgrass industry

Melissa Mithchum holds soybean seedling in greenhouse

 Agriculture January 05, 2022

UGA and MU awarded $1.2 million NSF-NIFA grant to fight the soybean cyst nematode

cattle grazing in field

 Agriculture December 09, 2021

Incorporating alfalfa in forage systems could lead to environmental benefits

HGeorgia-grown satsuma orange

 Agriculture December 02, 2021

Red and Black and . . . Orange?

UGA plant pathologist Bhabesh Dutta examines onion seedlings in research facilities on the UGA Tifton campus.

 Agriculture November 29, 2021

New “onion devourer” bacteria found by UGA researchers

Taking part in the groundbreaking were, from left, Ryan Nesbit, Kelly Kerner, Kathy Pharr, Rahul Shrivastav, Provost S. Jack Hu, Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, President Jere W. Morehead, Gov. Brian Kemp, Marty Kemp, Nick Place, Kylie Bruce, Regent Everett Kennedy, Regent Philip Wilheit, Jennifer Frum, Arthur Tripp and Toby Carr

 Agriculture November 16, 2021

UGA breaks ground on new Poultry Science Complex

retired UGA turfgrass breeder Wayne Hanna (left) and Brian Schwartz joined UGA's turfgrass program

 Agriculture October 28, 2021

Plant breeders at UGA, UF work together to toughen up turf

From left, Blake Raulerson, Alton Standifer and Nick Place talk with CAES Ambassadors at the Sunbelt Ag Expo in Moultrie, Georgia.

 Agriculture October 27, 2021

Expo showcases cutting-edge agricultural advances

food on the floor

 Agriculture October 22, 2021

UGA crop specialist combats postharvest food waste with research and education