Southeast
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Plant Industry Division has sent out a notice asking state residents and growers to be on the lookout for the early-stage nests of th...
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The Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association’s labor seminar returns this year but at a different time of the year.
The Georgia Ag Labor Relations Forum is scheduled for Aug. 20-21 and ret...
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The Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (GFVGA) is weighing in on the Department of Labor’s H-2A rules and the 2024 farm bill legislation.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rules fur...
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Growers are being called on by the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) to serve on the Peach State’s agriculture commodity commissions.
A dozen of Georgia’s agricultural commodity commissio...
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School lunches have come a long way from square pizza and fish sticks, and students across the board are benefiting from improved nutritional standards in the cafeteria.
A new study from the Univer...
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Jerry David Dowdy, owner of Atwell Pecan Co. in Wrens, Georgia, has died. He was 77.
Dowdy, who died April 12, was born in 1947 in Glennville, Georgia.
A former chairman of the National Pecan Sh...
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G&R Farms, which grows pecans as well as Vidalia onions, has added Rawls Neville as sales manager.
Neville joined the third generation Glennville, Georgia, Vidalia onion grower on April 1.
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Shane Curry, a University of Georgia Extension county agent who has led work on pecans, has become executive director of the Vidalia Onion Committee (VOC).
Curry was Appling County Extension ag...
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