Find out the latest about what we're doing here at Georgia Seed Development.
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Growing our gas: UGA moving biofuels closer to market
October 20, 2023 By Emily Halnon Associate Professor Ali Missaoui, one of several University of Georgia faculty associated with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, breeds switchgrass as a potential feedstock for biofuels at UGA’s Iron Horse Farm in Watkinsville. The switchgrass program is just...
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GEORGIA SEED DEVELOPMENT BOARD MEETING
October 13, 2023 GEORGIA SEED DEVELOPMENT BOARD MEETING The annual Georgia Seed Development Board meeting will be held in the GSDC conference room in Athens, GA beginning at 1:00PM on Wednesday, November 8, 2022. For any additional details or questions, please contact Mrs. Erin Montgomery for details (erin.montgomery@gsdc.com or 706-552-4525)....
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Georgia, the Blueberry State?
September 1, 2023 Jordan Powers, PR coordinator UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences jpowers@uga.edu Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part series exploring Georgia’s blueberry boom. From bringing more than 50 varieties to market and ensuring plants will endure a changing climate...
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UGA Turf Team supports Mexico’s highest professional soccer leagues
July 19, 2023 UGA Turf Team supports Mexico's highest professional soccer leagues By Emily Cabrera, CAES Newswire Nicknamed "The Steel Giant," the BBVA Stadium in Monterrey, Mexico, will host matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Members of the UGA Turf Team have just wrapped up a turfgrass certification program to...
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Georgia Grown TV- The Georgia Peanut, Part 1
May 10, 2023 Georgia is the #1 producing state for peanuts in the United States...This episode introduces some of the farmers and behind-the-scenes workers who make it all possible. The link below will take you to Episode 1 https://youtu.be/n0vIeEo0ASk...
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GEORGIA SEED DEVELOPMENT BOARD MEETING
April 24, 2023 GEORGIA SEED DEVELOPMENT BOARD MEETING The Spring Georgia Seed Development Board meeting will be held at the Windsor Hotel in Plains, GA beginning at 8:00AM on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. For any additional details or questions, please contact Mrs. Erin Montgomery for details (erin.montgomery@gsdc.com or 706-552-4525)....
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Trees for the future: developing climate-adapted pecans
March 31, 2023 Trees for the future: developing climate-adapted pecans By Jordan Powers, for CAES Newswire [An orchard of pecan trees lines the frame with a cloudy sky in the background.] Wells’ earlier research with hedge pruning demonstrated that hedge-pruned trees are less water-stressed and potentially more efficient in their use...
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2023 SUMMER INTERNSHIP
January 31, 2023 Georgia Seed Development (GSD) along with Georgia Crop Improvement Association (GCIA) are sponsoring summer internships for rising junior or senior undergraduate students majoring in one of the plant or crop sciences, agribusiness, agricultural economics or a related discipline. The goal of the internship is to provide students an opportunity to...
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Planting to picking, good peanuts start from the ground up
December 28, 2022 Field to Jar, Part 2 Variety selection, disease management and harvest timing are critical to Georgia’s peanut farmers By Maria M. Lameiras, UGA CAES From year to year, many row crop producers rotate the crops they plant to reduce pest and disease pressure and to benefit the land, often...
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Leaf spot-resistant peanut released from program
November 14, 2022 The first commercially available peanut cultivar highly resistant to leaf spot disease. USDA-ARS peanut breeder Corley Holbrook checks peanut plots on research farm in Tifton, Ga. Brad Haire | Nov 11, 2022 Southeast Farm Press CB-1 and CB-2 hold up well and look pretty good. But Corley Holbrook says CB-7...