Category Archives: Agriculture

Agriculture

CAES graduate students Anita Giabardo (left) and Mekidani Jacob Salu have been selected as 2025–28 FFAR Fellows, advancing research in crop resilience, disease resistance and global food security through the prestigious agriculture leadership program. (Photos by Sean Montgomery)

 Agriculture December 15, 2025

CAES graduate students selected as FFAR Fellows to tackle global agriculture challenges

And image of Peng Chee and a woman talking in a cotton field.

 Agriculture October 09, 2025

Field to Fabric: UGA researchers innovate to secure the future of Southern cotton

Entomology Professor Gaelen Burke works in her laboratory at the UGA Biological Sciences Building. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)

 Agriculture September 26, 2025

Faculty expand global research connections through AgINSPIRE

Image of Jack Huang holding his hands up in gesture to fello9w researcher

 Agriculture August 22, 2025

Mitigating a perilous flow

Angelos Deltsidis (center standing), UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences assistant professor and UGA Extension postharvest specialist, presents to a class in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Researchers at CAES and partners across North America are working to help reduce food loss in the UAE, one of the most challenging agricultural environments in the world. (Photo courtesy of the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority)

 Agriculture August 15, 2025

CAES leads global project to boost local food systems in the United Arab Emirates

People sorting through Heirloom Collards just picked from a field.

 Agriculture June 22, 2025

UGA collaboration seeks to preserve heirloom collards

Two people kneel on grass among chickens, wearing gloves and handling medical supplies, with a cooler and various items beside them in a sunlit outdoor setting.

 Agriculture May 19, 2025

Poop with a purpose: Boosting farm sustainability with chicken feces

Three graduate researchers honored in 20th year of E. Broadus Browne Awards.

 Agriculture May 01, 2025

Three graduate researchers honored in 20th year of E. Broadus Browne Awards

UGA associate professor Pablo Lapegna

 Agriculture January 29, 2025

The pesky business of pesticides

CAES plant nematologist Melissa Mitchum and researcher Xunliang Liu have made a significant discovery toward understanding how cyst nematodes co-opt a sugar beet’s vascular system for their own benefit. The cysts caused by the parasite are visible on the bearded roots of this sugar beet. (Photo by Mactode Publications, Bugwood.org)

 Agriculture January 17, 2025

CAES scientists discover how cyst nematodes attack crops