Last Updated Main News Page Paterson at UGA Onion Bugs. Tiny bugs take a costly bite of Vidalia onions. Higher supplies will cut prices at the store.
Buds wrap up the keys to trees' survival.
Garden planning and a Blairsville seminar. The high-tech excitement of the University of Georgia's plant genetics research is ratchetting higher with the addition of Andrew Paterson to its faculty as a professor in plant biotechnology and genomics. Georgia onion growers don't usually think of insects as a major problem. But thrips can take a bite out of the sweet onion crop, said a University of Georgia scientist. If you like falling prices, check out the dairy case at your favorite grocer, says a University of Georgia economist.