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What if the Farm Bill Was Stripped of its Nutrition Title?

As we have heard over the past few weeks, one of the biggest issues with lawmakers agreeing on a new Farm Bill is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). There has been talk by some lawmakers about possibly taking the nutrition title out of the Farm Bill. So in a story from Gary Crawford, they look at what the likely result of …

Pathologist Provides Update on HLB Spread in Georgia
Citrus greening disease continues to loom over the cold-hardy citrus region. While the industry expands in South Georgia and North Florida, the threat of the disease (also known as huanglongbing, or HLB) remains a focal point of citrus meetings, including on July 28 at the Southeast Georgia Citrus Update in Lyons. Jonathan Oliver, University of […]
Research Shows How HLB Progresses Through Trees
Recent research provides one of the clearest pictures to date of how huanglongbing (HLB) disease develops over time and affects different parts of a tree. An article about the research — “Microscopic Atlas of Citrus Huanglongbing Unravels Its Sequential Disease Development Mechanism” — was published in the journal Phytopathology. The authors are researchers Diann Achor, […]