March 28: Farmers, Researchers
Helping Clean Up Water. Larry Risse wants to know if the
water flowing through his
100-acre farm somehow contribute to the pollution of nearby Lake
Oconee.
Aug. 23: Goodbye Dursban:
Consumers, Farmers Must Switch. If you normally buy the
pesticide Dursban to fight
pests like fleas, ticks and spiders, you’d better start shopping
for a replacement.
Aug. 31: Georgia Poultry
Farmers Fine-tuning Recycling. Georgia farmers produce 21
million pounds of poultry a
day. Now they’re poised to take the lead in safeguarding soil and
water quality.
Oct. 11: Fire Ants Threaten
Georgia Wildlife. Entomologists and wildlife biologists have
found evidence that fire
ants are hurting loggerhead turtles, brown pelicans, quail and
alligators.
Oct. 11: UGA, Farmers Seek
to Replace Chemical. With help from UGA experts, Georgia
farmers think they may have
found a simple replacement for a chemical they hoped they’d never
lose.
Nov. 14: Gnat-size Dive
Bombers Strike Georgia Fire Ants. Until the decapitating
flies showed up, Buck Aultman
had no way to rid his 20-acre pasture of its pox of fire ant
mounds.
Dec. 21: Homeowners Lose
Another Popular Pesticide. Just months after consumers lost
Dursban, a major maker of
diazinon has announced plans to phase it out of the market.
