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DIGEST |
Vegetable
park opens in Tifton
Scientific work often focuses on specific, isolated studies.
A study on weeds may ignore disease or insect problems. But
a farmer’s field isn’t like a study plot, according
to Stanley Culpepper, who chaired the committee that planned
the Tifton Vegetable Park.
The 12-acre park will give scientists a place to conduct interdisciplinary
research to provide Georgia farmers real-world solutions to
their vegetable-crop problems. It’s on the Tifton campus
of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
“The goal of the park is to provide a place for different
disciplines to come together and take a systems approach to
vegetable studies,” says Culpepper, a weed specialist
with the UGA Extension Service. “We can work out ways
to better do things as a whole that the growers can take straight
to their fields.”
Horticulturists, plant pathologists, entomologists, engineers
and crop-and-soil scientists with UGA and the U.S. Department
of Agriculture will work on research together. The first studies
started this past spring.
Projects are chosen on their value to vegetable growers, level
of interdisciplinary approach, cooperation between research
and extension scientists and external funding.
The Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association will advise
scientists on issues critical to Georgia’s vegetable industry.
The park is a work in progress. Future plans include a small
storage and packing shed, where after-harvest handling studies
can be conducted.
Funding for the park came from a $144,000 grant from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture through the Georgia Department of
Agriculture.
Former golfer gets NCAA scholarship
Ryan Hybl, the only senior on the men’s golf team last
season, has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
The NCAA presented grants in the amount of $7,500 to 58 male
and female athletes from spring sports across the country.
A native of Colbert, Hybl graduated last spring with a degree
in sports studies and is currently working for the American
Junior Golf Association. He maintained a 3.63 grade point average,
earning the Joel Eaves Award as the male senior athlete with
the highest GPA entering his final year and the Dick Bestwick
Award for the top GPA among graduating male seniors. Hybl also
was named to the Dean’s List, the President’s List
and the SEC Academic Honor Roll, and he was chosen as a Cleveland
Golf Scholar All-American.
Poll: Georgians have discussed election
The latest Peach State Poll, conducted by UGA’s Carl Vinson
Institute of Government, finds that 85 percent of Georgians
say that they have discussed the upcoming election with a family
member, friend or coworker. Only one state resident in 10, however,
has gone a step further to contribute money to a political campaign,
the survey reports.
“While they may be talking about the election, Georgians
are ambivalent about the degree to which they can make a difference
in government,” says Rich Clark, poll director. “For
example, 66 percent of Georgians believe that the representatives
they send to Washington quickly lose touch with their constituents.
Nonetheless, 63 percent do not agree with the notion that people
like them have no say about what government does.”
A slim majority of Georgians (52 percent) believe that they
can have either a significant impact (15 percent) or some impact
(37 percent) on local government decisions, but only 35 percent
believe that they can have either a significant impact (8 percent)
or some impact (27 percent) on decisions made at the national
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