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| Time
To Plant Pine Seedlings |
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Disease Causing Problems
In Strawberry Fields |
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| Keep
Insects Out Of Firewood |
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| College
Scientists Building Microgin |
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| Georgia
4-H'ers Pick Up Tabs |
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| Time
To Plant Pine Seedlings |
1:25 |
The winter months are also
the pine seedling planting season in Georgia. |
The planting season for
pine seedlings normally runs from mid-December through mid-March,
but a wet December may cause the season to extend into April.
David Moorhead, a University of Georgia forester says for the
first time in several years, soil moisture conditions are ideal
for planting pine seedlings. "We have had some of the best soil
moisture conditions for tree planting in the last four years
and hopefully this additional rainfall will carry newly planted
seedlings through the early summer." David Moorhead with the
University of Georgia's Warnell School of Forest Resources.
When planting pine seedlings, the university forester recommends
checking the spacing between seedlings, so the correct number
will be planted per acre. Once the seedlings are planted, consider
applying herbicides, so weeds won't grow up and compete with
the young seedlings for water and nutrients. John Harrell, University
of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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| Disease
Causing Problems In Strawberry Fields |
1:23 |
A disease has been moving into
the state's strawberry fields. |
Recent cold conditions,
along with freezing temperatures caused the disease called angular
leaf spot to move into strawberry fields. Phillip Brannen a
plant pathologist with the University of Georgia Extension Service
says angular leaf spot has some early warning symptoms, especially
when you look at the leaves. "If you hold the leaves up to the
light and one thing that kind of helps you to trigger on the
fact that it's bacterial, on the underside it looks water soaked,
so the lesions kind of look wet." Phillip Brannen with the College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The university scientist
advises strawberry growers to scout their fields closely for
signs of this disease. If the disease has moved in, apply treatments
that contain copper and follow the specific instructions on
the label, to put the chill on angular leaf spot in strawberry
fields. John Harrell, University of Georgia College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| Keep
Insects Out Of Firewood |
1:38 |
Some unwanted critters may
come into your home inside your firewood. |
Georgia has finally felt
the deep freeze of a cold winter, causing a lot of firewood
to be cut and burned. But an entomologist with the University
of Georgia Extension Service says roaches, ants, and certain
beetles like to move inside that firewood, after you stack and
store the wood. He adds roaches inside firewood are different
from other roaches may find inside your home. "Oh, they're completely
different the German cockroach, like I said again is an obligate
indoor pest and the other one is an obligate outdoor pest, and
the indoor pest doesn't do well outside, will not survive outside
and the outdoor cockroach will not survive indoors." That was
Dan Sutter with the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences. To reduce the chances of these unwanted insects hitching
a ride inside that firewood, stack your firewood four or five
inches above the ground, and try to store the wood in a dry
place. If insects do make their way into your home inside firewood,
don't spray an insecticide on the wood, since most of these
sprays contain materials that are flammable, and could start
a fire. John Harrell, University of Georgia College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| College
Scientists Building Microgin |
1:47 |
A new University of Georgia
facility will help improve the state's cotton quality. |
Poor fiber quality has
been a costly problem for cotton farmers in Georgia. Last year
it took away forty three million dollars in potential income
from the state's growers. But scientists with the University
of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
are building a cotton microgin, to solve this problem before
it gets worse. The facility, which is being built on the University
of Georgia's Tifton campus in South Georgia, will be used by
cotton scientists to help Georgia farmers improve their cotton
fiber quality. The microgin has been designed to handle cotton
like a regular gin, but on a smaller scale. "A microgin is basically
a cotton gin that has been cut down to one foot wide all the
equipment in a microgin you would see in a commercial gin plant,
the difference is the gin equipment in a commercial gin plant
is about eight feet wide, whereas the gin equipment in this
microgin will only be one foot wide. The reason is one foot
wide is because we're going to gin smaller volumes of cotton."
That was Craig Bednarz with the College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences. The microgin will also provide a facility
to work closely with the textile industry, and address it's
concerns. John Harrell, University of Georgia College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| Georgia
4-H'ers Pick Up Tabs |
1:26 |
Georgia 4-H'ers have been picking
up the tabs for a good cause. |
Junior 4-H club members
across the state recently collected more than six million aluminum
pop tabs from the cans of soft drinks. One tab may seem worthless,
but together all those pieces of aluminum weighed a little more
than two tons, and were worth nineteen hundred dollars. Paula
Poss, a University of Georgia 4-H worker in Columbia County
says the money collected will go to help the Ronald McDonald
House of Central Georgia in Macon. She adds the 4-H'ers devised
ways to collect the tabs. "They pulled together, as a Junior
4-H, that's seventh and eighth grades all over the state, and
our kids just zeroed in on it and one group did churches, and
Sunday school offices, clubs, those children just went out and
got them from everywhere." Paula Poss with the College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences. The Ronald McDonald House Pop Tab
Collection Program began in 1987. So far, more than four hundred
million pop tabs have been collected, generating more that three-hundred
thousand dollars. John Harrell, University of Georgia College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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