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An outdoor water spigot extends from a building on the University of Georgia campus in Griffin, Ga. CAES News
Frozen Pipes 11/07/13 Frank M. Watson
With fall weather just beginning, you may not be worried about cold weather problems yet. The child in all of us gets excited at the thought of snow, but we quickly lose that excitement when our water pipes freeze.
Many parts of Georgia only saw about a quarter of their normal October rainfall during October 2013. CAES News
Dry October 11/07/13 Pam Knox
After an extremely wet summer, Georgians saw the return of abnormally dry conditions in October.
Cotton is dumped into a trailer at the Gibbs Farm in Tifton on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. CAES News
Cotton Crop 10/31/13 Clint Thompson
Mid-summer rainfall combined with cooler fall weather could impact production for late-season cotton farmers throughout Georgia.
cracked pecans CAES News
Pecan Production 10/30/13 Clint Thompson
Increased rainfall in the summer opened the door to disease and drastically lowered individual size and quantity of pecans produced in Georgia this year.
Calvin Perry, superintendent of the Stripling Irrigation Research Park, speaks to area 4-H students during 4H20 Camp this past summer. CAES News
Stripling Irrigation Research Park 10/22/13 Clint Thompson
The C.M. Stripling Irrigation Research Park has won a top award for its Smart Irrigation Month campaign this summer.
Cotton is harvested Nov, 1, 2005 at the Durden Farms Candler County near Metter, Ga. CAES News
Crop update 09/24/13 Robert C Kemerait Jr
Weather played a significant role in the types of diseases that have been found on Georgia crops this season. Rainfall delayed harvest in some cotton and soybean fields and brought diseases to peanuts, cotton and corn fields. Cooler temperatures, however, kept at least one peanut mold at bay.
Will Ross, head grower at Evergreen Nursery in Statham, explains how a new automated micro-irrigation system developed by UGA researchers has helped him get these hostas — being grown for next spring — off to a good start. CAES News
Advanced Irrigation 08/20/13 Merritt Melancon
A team of University of Georgia researchers has been able to reduce container nurseries’ water usage by 70 percent, as a result of new breakthroughs in computer-linked soil moisture sensors.
With many areas of the state received more than eight inches of rain during the month, July was another abnormally wet and cool month in Georgia. CAES News
July 2013 Climate 08/09/13 Pam Knox
With many areas of the state receiving more than eight inches of rain during the month, July was another abnormally wet and cool month in Georgia.
Target spot on cotton CAES News
Soggy fields 07/31/13 Robert C Kemerait Jr
Rain may be a good thing, but too much of a good thing can become a problem for Georgia farmers.
Rows of cotton at a farm on the University of Georgia Tifton Campus in 2013. CAES News
Rain soaking cotton fields 07/24/13 Clint Thompson
The deluge of rainfall this summer made a splash with some cotton farmers but created a tidal wave of challenges that some growers are still fighting.