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| Committing
Land For Land Use Conservation |
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College Scientists Discovering
New Beetles |
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| Planning
Out Meals Can Save Money |
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| Honey
Bees Help Control Blueberry Disease |
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| Diet
Busters Trained In South Georgia |
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| Committing
Land For Land Use Conservation |
1:37 |
An increasing number of Georgian's
are looking at land use conservation. |
Government agencies along
with rural landowners want to maintain land units in agricultural,
forest, or other "Low" development conditions. Severing development
rights to a tract of land from the land itself, through the
sale or gift of those rights to individuals, or agencies is
one method of maintaining land in a conservation use. Curt Lacy,
an agricultural economist with the University of Georgia's College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences says people in both
urban and agricultural areas should consider all options before
committing part of their land to land use conservation. "But
once they get to thinking about the long term implications of
what they're doing here and not just the fact that there won't
be a house built on it for say the next five to ten years, but
the fact that their heirs will never be able to sell that property,
because it doesn't have any development rights or they can sell
it, but it would just have to remain in an agricultural or non-developed
use." Curt Lacy with the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, who adds there are several tax issues landowners also
need to look at as they consider setting aside some of their
land for land use conservation. John Harrell, University of
Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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| College
Scientists Discovering New Beetles |
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College scientists often get
swamped while looking for new creatures. |
As of 2005, around 365,000
beetle species have been identified and described. But scientists
with the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences say they have a lot more work to do,
since there are millions of beetle species that are unknown,
and have not been identified. It's important to learn and identify
as many beetle species as possible, since each one plays an
important role in the environment. "You know each one of these
creatures out there has a different role and they all are doing
something out in the environment and we don't even know some
of these beetles, the vast majority of them even exist, let
alone knowing what they do out in nature." That was Joe McHugh
with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
University scientists are studying thousands of specimens borrowed
from museums around the world. They're collecting new samples
from the field, too, for aspects of the project that require
data from different developmental stages, or from DNA. Over
the next four years, they plan to conduct beetle research in
Panama, Chile, South Africa, and Australia. John Harrell, University
of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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| Planning
Out Meals Can Save Money |
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Spending a small amount of
time planning out meals could help families save money. |
According to a recent study,
many people don't start thinking about what they will have for
dinner until four o' clock in the afternoon. Specialists with
the University of Georgia's College of Family and Consumer Sciences
say you could save around twenty-six dollars a month by making
one trip to the grocery store, instead of four or five. Those
trips also are getting more expensive, since fuel prices in
most of Georgia are near two-dollars a gallon. Planning ahead
could also help families eat healthier. "Because that way you're
likely to include fruits and vegetables, and a variety of different
foods and you're likely to eat a healthier diet as well as save
money in the long run." That was Gail Hanula with the College
of Family and Consumer Sciences. As you plan out your meals,
and make your grocery list, include items for several quick,
easy meals, such as a box of pasta, and a jar of spaghetti sauce,
canned soup, and frozen pizza. The university specialist goes
on to say spending fifteen to thirty minutes once a week planning
your meals can save you money and time. John Harrell, University
of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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| Honey
Bees Help Control Blueberry Disease |
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College scientists are teaming
up with honey bees, to get control of a serious problem in blueberry
orchards. |
Blueberry producers welcome
honey bees to their groves, because they do a good job pollinating
rabbiteye blueberries. Unfortunately, bees also carry a fungus
that infects the flower, which leads to mummy berry disease.
Scientist with the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences are conducting tests to find if honey
bees can transmit an agent to blueberries that will reduce pressure
from mummy berry disease. "Where we spread a beneficial bacterium
with the honey bees, and the bacterium will out compete the
disease causing fungus on the sight of the flower itself." That
was Keith Delaplane with the college of agricultural and Environmental
Sciences. Bee hives were fitted with dispensers holding the
bacterium so bees coming out of the hive picked up the beneficial
bacterium on their bodies, and delivered it to the blueberry
flowers. Results of this study indicate use of a hive-dispersed
biocontrol product as a supplement during pollination can reduce
the risk of mummy berry disease in blueberries. John Harrell,
University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| Diet
Busters Trained In South Georgia |
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Diet Busters are being trained
in several South Georgia counties. |
Despite spending forty
million dollars a year on dieting, and diet related products,
the obesity rate only got worse, and doubled over the last decade.
Some South Georgia counties realized proper eating needed to
be taught in schools, so they became "Diet Busters." Emily Ryan,
a county extension agent in Dougherty County says the training
wanted to shed some light on why some diets are not effective
in the long term. "Some of them can be very misleading so we
just try to break them down, make them a little easier, help
them understand why they help people lose weight but why they're
not effective in the long term and then try to help them to
see some more basic simple things they could do to just be healthier."
Emily Ryan with the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences. In 2004 over one-thousand South
Georgia school nutrition workers took part in the training and
became "Diet Busters." Over ninety percent of the nutrition
employees indicated they would do a better job encouraging students
to make healthier food choices. John Harrell, University of
Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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