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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 |
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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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