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| Creating
More White Chicken Meat |
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College Scientists Solving
Fishy Problems |
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| Soybean
Rust Confirmed In Commercial Field |
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| Don't
Delay Getting Ready For Cotton Harvest |
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Garden Sites Need Fall Maintenance |
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| Creating
More White Chicken Meat |
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College scientists are looking
at ways to create more white chicken meat. |
The latest surveys indicate
consumers prefer white chicken meat over dark when they make
their selection at meat counters. Dark chicken meat has several
disadvantages, including fat content and color. Scientists with
the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences want to remove these contents. The results would make
a normally dark thigh or drumstick appear white, just like the
meat from a chicken breast. "They always want new foods and
this gives us just another technology that we can do to increase
the variety of our food supply." That was Dan Fletcher with
the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Since
the U .S. demand for dark chicken meat is down, a large percentage
of dark meat is exported to other countries. If this research
project of creating more white meat is successful, we can put
this dark meat to good use here instead of shipping it out to
other countries. John Harrell, University of Georgia College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, reporting from Tifton. |
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| College
Scientists Solving Fishy Problems |
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College scientists are helping
farmers solve fishy problems. |
For the past three years,
Georgia's aquaculture industry has been growing, as more farmers
begin growing and producing fish. But each year around ten percent
of the aquaculture industry has problems with diseases, poor
water quality, and other problems that require a quick response.
Scientists with the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences use distance diagnostic technology,
which allows them to respond to problems quickly, and recommend
treatments. "I really appreciate the development of the digital
imaging system and the use of e-mail to send images of sick
fish and water quality related problems, weed control problems.
It saves a lot of wear and tear on the vehicles and time on
the road." That was Gary Burtle with the College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences. More than twelve-hundred aquaculture
cases were submitted to the University of Georgia's Tifton Campus
in 2004, and that number is expected to increase this year.
The value of these cases exceeds three million dollars based
on the acreage and fish value involved. John Harrell, University
of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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| Soybean
Rust Confirmed In Commercial Field |
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A destructive soybean disease
has been diagnosed in Southeast Georgia. |
In late August the disease
soybean rust invaded a commercial soybean field. Phil Jost,
an agronomist with the University of Georgia Extension Service
says this is the first time the disease has been found in a
commercial soybean field in Georgia. "We started making finds
back in April on volunteer plants and then sporadically throughout
the season we've found it in sentinel plots. The latest find
is in a commercial field in Appling County." Phil Jost with
the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Since
soybean rust has been confirmed in a commercial field, university
scientists are now recommending all soybean farmers in South
Georgia apply a fungicide treatment, in fields which are currently
at the bloom stage or beyond. Growers in North and Central Georgia
should continue to scout their soybean fields closely, and be
ready to apply a fungicide treatment, if the disease moves into
those commercial soybean fields. John Harrell, University of
Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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| Don't
Delay Getting Ready For Cotton Harvest |
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Now is the time for all cotton
farmers to get ready for harvest. |
Thanks to plenty of rain
this spring and summer, growers could harvest one of the best
cotton crop in years. But an agronomist with the University
of Georgia Extension Service says don't wait until the last
minute to get ready for harvest. Begin making preparations now,
because delays in harvesting could reduce yields and quality.
"There's a lot of good research that shows significant declines
in yield and significant declines in quality if we let cotton
stay in the fields, stay on the plants, be subjected to rain,
be subjected to dew, fall on the ground and so there's a lot
of bad things that can happen if we wait." That was Steve Brown
with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Farmers should go ahead and clean out their harvesting equipment,
and give it a maintenance checkup, so it will be ready for action
in September. Growers should also keep a close check on cotton
plants, so they can get the crop defoliated on time, which will
improve the chances of timely harvest. John Harrell, University
of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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Garden Sites Need Fall Maintenance |
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Don't hang up those garden
hoes and spades when that summer garden yields its last harvest. |
Despite the summer heat
and humidity, you enjoy harvesting and eating fresh vegetables
from your garden. But a horticulturist with the University of
Georgia Extension Service says don't abandon that garden site
until next spring. It needs fall and winter maintenance. These
activities including making notes and maps about this summer's
garden. "Draw you a map of the garden, and go out there and
look at areas that performed well, make note of those areas,
make note of any wet areas that you want to avoid next year,
make note of any areas that have problem weeds that you've had
a tough time dealing with you may want to avoid those areas.
Make notes of what varieties you grew this year and which ones
performed well and maybe which ones didn't perform so well."
That was Terry Kelley with the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences. Late summer and fall are ideal times to take nematode
and soil samples from garden sites. If you still have the itch
to garden, consider growing cool season crops during the fall,
like broccoli, cabbage, collards, and lettuce, to keep that
garden site productive until cold weather. John Harrell, University
of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
reporting from Tifton. |
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