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Home Smoke Alarms Regularly |
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Study Reveals Interesting
Irrigation Data |
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| Attractive
Credit Card Offers Can Backfire |
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| Begin
Planning Your 2004 Peanut Crop |
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| Helping
Catfish Farmers Solve Problems |
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| Check
Home Smoke Alarms Regularly |
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Make sure those smoke alarms
in your home receive passing grades every year. |
Reports indicate there
are more than 330,000 fires in homes every year. Jorge Atiles,
a housing and environment specialist with the University of
Georgia Extension Service says millions of homes have smoke
alarms that do not work. He adds it's important to make sure
smoke alarms are properly connected, and have batteries that
are still alive and working. "But the important thing about
smoke detectors that even if you have it, if the battery is
gone or they are not connected, wired directly with the power
supply, you won't know if they're working. So you need to test
them and every year you need to change the batteries to make
sure that they are in correct order, so the smoke detector will
do it's job." Jorge Atiles with the College of Family and Consumer
Sciences , who adds you should select a certain date once a
year and change the batteries in smoke alarms every year on
that date. If you're getting ready to move into a new multi-level
home, make sure smoke detectors are installed on each level,
to reduce the chances of a fire burning you out of your home,
or killing you. John Harrell, University of Georgia College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| Study
Reveals Interesting Irrigation Data |
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A recent study by college scientists
revealed some interesting facts about irrigation in Georgia. |
The study looked at the
watering habits of farmers during drought years, and last year
when the state experienced above normal rainfall. Jim Hook,
a scientist with the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences says results from the five-year study
were surprising. "I think the main thing is that we're using
a lot less water than we originally thought. If you go back
five to six years ago, before the study began and while Georgia
was starting to negotiate with Florida and Alabama, our expectations
of what farmers were using were much higher." Jim Hook with
the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The
study also showed one vegetable crop uses the same amount of
water as row crops like peanuts and cotton. Around eighty percent
of the center pivot irrigation systems in the study have had
newer, more efficient water nozzles put on them, for better
water management. John Harrell, University of Georgia College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| Attractive
Credit Card Offers Can Backfire |
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Attractive offers can backfire
when you rush into selecting a credit card. |
Credit card advertisements
are aimed at many different groups of people. Unfortunately,
many of these people have bad credit. When they fall for bad
credit card offers, they make their financial situation worse.
Michael Rupured, a financial management specialist with the
University of Georgia Extension Service says make sure you read
the small print on credit card applications concerning annual
fees and other fees you could be charged with. "You need to
read the small print no matter what because there's no such
thing as a no fee card, there may be a credit card that doesn't
charge you an annual fee, but if you're late with the payment
I promise you they're going to charge you a late fee. Perhaps
if you go over your line of credit they're going to charge you
an over line of credit fee so there's no such thing as a card
without fees." Michael Rupured with the College of Family and
Consumer Sciences, who adds it's important not to rush and make
a quick decision. Remember, in most cases, the best deals aren't
the ones that come to you. Instead, you have to seek them out.
John Harrell, University of Georgia College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| Begin
Planning Your 2004 Peanut Crop |
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Farmers need to start making
decisions about their 2004 peanut crop. |
Spring is only weeks away,
when farmers feel the itch to prepare fields and plant seeds
in the ground. John Baldwin, an agronomist with the University
of Georgia Extension Service says with spring just around the
corner, growers need to get their minds thinking about peanuts
in 2004. He adds it's important to collect soil samples from
the fields, especially if you plan to grow new peanut varieties
this year. "If you haven't soil tested in particular those of
you leasing new ground, be sure to check those soil test results.
Some of these newer cultivars we have, your going to try them
they're larger seeded. We need to make sure our PH is up in
that 6 to 6.5 range, along with having adequate calcium in that
pegging zone." John Baldwin with the College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences, who adds it's also time to check
sprayers, planters, and other equipment, so it will be ready
to help you get that 204 peanut crop off to a good start. John
Harrell, University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| Helping
Catfish Farmers Solve Problems |
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College scientists are helping
catfish farmers and pond owners reduce costly problems. |
Georgia's aquaculture industry
loses around ten percent of the animals each year because of
diseases and other stresses. To reduce these losses, scientists
with the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences trained producers about the economics
of catfish farming, and other marketing topics. He adds it's
also important to learn about keeping predators from eating
fish out of a pond. "Can eat some of your fish and you need
to be able to control their access to your fish ponds. Four-legged
predators, two-legged preditors, and flying preditors, and even
those preditors that crawl on the ground can bother you if you
don't properly construct your facility." That was Gary Burtle
with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Economic activity directly associated with the catfish workshops
include two million dollars in catfish processing plant development,
and one million dollars in catfish farm development. Pond management
cases affected pond value in excess of one point five million
dollars. John Harrell, University of Georgia College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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