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University of Georgia College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Spring 2011
Fall 2008
Tapping into
the world
of Coke ®
TEACHING • RESEARCH • EXTENSION a publication for our alumni and friends
Spring 2011• Southscapes • 1
From Ag Hill
Volume Seven • Issue One
Southscapes is published semiannually Dear Alumni and Friends,
for alumni, friends and supporters
of the University of Georgia College We had an interesting start to 2011. By Jan. 15, Athens had On the Cover
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of Agricultural and Environmental seen 60 times its usual snowfall for the year, according to
Sciences by the CAES Office of College
Advancement and produced by the
state climatologist David Stooksbury. For the first time in Behind the Label
30 years, the university was closed for three consecutive
CAES Office of Communications and days due to snow. But the great thaw has arrived, and we
Technology Services. As the director of scientific and regulatory affairs for Coca-
welcome it.
Cola North America, Lucy Reid (BSHE – Experimental Foods,
The same can be said for the economy. We have seen a ’82, MS – Food Science, ’84) helps keep Coke® afloat with
slow-but-steady rise in state revenues since June 2010. That her knowledge of what makes a successful product, both
Amanda E. Swennes news is as welcome as springtime in Georgia. behind the scenes and on the label.
Managing Editor
U.S. economists continue to remind us the recession was
John Amis
Maria Bowie/Juli Fields officially over in June 2009, but we have to be patient
Stephanie Schupska
through what promises to be a slow recovery that could Scott Angle
Copy Editors
take two to three more years to fully materialize. However,
Stephen Morton
Cindy Allen agriculture delivered much good news early in this recovery process.
Graphic Designer Cover PHOTO BY Stephen Morton
Many of Georgia’s top commodities are seeing record-high market prices. Most of
Sharon Dowdy/Juli Fields/Brad Haire/ the price increases are being driven by increased demand around the world. That’s
Sarah Lewis/Faith Peppers/Stephanie a positive sign the world economy is on the rebound. High prices and record-setting
4 Features
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Schupska/April Sorrow/ Extension: Agents help grow the
exports for food and agricultural products have set the stage for Georgia agriculture
Amanda E. Swennes urban face of Georgia’s agriculture
Contributing Writers to be an economic star. We expect to see the farm economy remain strong and help
stabilize the state as the rest of the economy pulls slowly out of the recession. industry.
Brad Haire/Stephen Morton/Stephanie
Schupska/April Sorrow/
Amanda E. Swennes
Contributing Photographers
Sweeping changes are also afoot in Georgia. We inaugurated a new governor, Nathan
Deal, in January. And, CAES alumnus Gary Black was elected Commissioner of 14 Research: From fighting insect
invaders to keeping cruise ship
Extension
Agriculture – our first newly-elected ag commissioner in more than 40 years. We look
forward to working closely with Governor Deal and Commissioner Black.
passengers healthy, CAES researchers
J. Scott Angle
are on the front lines.
Dean and Director
April Sorrow
College of Agricultural Implementation of the new UGA Cooperative Extension delivery model is well under
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and Environmental Sciences way. Everyone associated with Extension, from administrators to county agents to 4-H Student Spotlight: Internships
and Master Gardener volunteers, is working hard to continue to offer high-quality
Rodney Miller offer students real-world learning
educational programs that help improve Georgians’ lives. They’ve had to make some
Director of Development
hard choices. I am proud of the innovative ideas they put into place that will keep opportunities beyond the classroom.
Office of College Advancement
Extension strong in the coming years.
Juli Fields
Director of Alumni Relations Finally, the college welcomed Rodney Miller as our new development director at 20 Teaching: Tifton campus field days
give kids a hands-on introduction to
Research
Office of College Advancement the end of 2010. Rodney’s extensive business experience and deep knowledge of
agriculture.
agriculture will serve us well as we seek funding and support through these lean budget
Chris Adcock years. The commitment that our donors and friends have shown has been encouraging.
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Interim Director
I am confident that under Rodney’s leadership we will see exciting new projects take Q&A: What’s one thing about your
Dean Kemp
Office of Communications and
Technology Services root. field that you wish everyone knew?
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Suggestions? Questions? As spring ushers in a new growing season, we hope to watch the economy prosper, our
ocamgr@uga.edu students flourish and research and Extension bring innovation and energy to Georgia
agriculture and our college.
23 Lead Dogs: Alumni news, updates
and accolades.
Sincerely,
26 CAES Notes: Kudos to amazing
alumni, plus ways you can give back Teaching
to CAES.
J. Scott Angle
Dean and Director
31 Alumni Line: CAES Alumni
Brad Haire
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Association president Charles Hall
challenges you to seize common
An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution opportunities and make them great.
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Extension
Agriculture “Cityfied”
Ag Extension agents offer expertise to industry, community in urban areas
By Amanda E. Swennes
I t’s just another day at the office for Gary Peiffer, a
Cooperative Extension agent in DeKalb County. The morning
starts with a visit to a landscape company to give advice
about tree planting and protection, pesticide safety, storm water
and urban sprawl issues. Then he’s off to a Rotary luncheon
to talk about community gardens and farmers markets. After
that, it’s back to the office to answer phone calls and e-mails
from homeowners wondering how to winterize their lawns
and get rid of the squirrels in their attics. Throughout the
day, homeowners and green industry representatives bring in
samples for identification or control methods.
But the workday doesn’t always end at 5 p.m. Evenings may
be spent preparing for a Master Gardener training or delivering
presentations to civic groups about basic gardening skills like
diagnostic and pest control issues, soil preparation and plant
watering. The next morning, it’s back to work in one of the most the faint of heart. But helping all of those groups, as different as
densely populated Georgia counties to do it all again. they are, is what Georgia’s urban agriculture Extension agents
Scenes similar to this one play out every day in many have signed up to do every day.
“ What a lot of people don’t counties across the state, urban and rural. Extension agents
stand ready to answer all sorts of questions — from a Industry
understand is that urban ag is homeowner trying to figure out why her azaleas won’t bloom to The University of Georgia’s Center for Urban Agriculture,
a farmer staring down a disease that’s threatening to decimate located on the UGA campus in Griffin, Ga., is essentially a
not that different from traditional his soybean crop. melting pot of information from disciplines including crop and
“What a lot of people don’t understand is that urban ag is
agriculture. To be successful, you soil sciences, plant pathology, entomology, horticulture and
not that different from traditional agriculture,” Peiffer said. “To biological and agricultural engineering. More often than not,
have to have good soil, plant the be successful, you have to have good soil, plant the right crops urban issues cut across those boundaries. For example, when it
where they’re supposed to go, water them correctly and manage comes to addressing a plant disease, pathologists can identify
right crops where they’re pest and disease control.” and design a treatment for it, engineers can create a new
supposed to go, water them According to the U.S. Census, nearly one-third of Georgia’s irrigation system that delivers the proper amount of water at the
9.7 million people lived in the metro Atlanta counties of correct time to lessen disease pressure and horticulturists can
correctly and manage pest and Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Cobb and Clayton in 2009. But help make sure the right plant is installed in the right place.
disease control.” there are several urban pockets across the state, from Atlanta While traditional agricultural crops like cotton, soybeans
to Macon, Columbus to Albany and Savannah to Valdosta. and peanuts are considered commodities, urban agriculture is
~ Gary Peiffer, DeKalb County Cooperative Providing assistance and research-based advice to homeowners, based primarily on products and value-added services, such as
Extension agent green industry companies caring for landscapes and myriad landscape architecture and farmers markets.
subdivision, city, county and state organizations is not a job for
Continued on next page
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Extension
w
April Sorro
“Cityfied,” continued from previous page
In Muscogee County, more than 300 Community Gardens
small businesses are green industry- Community gardens seem to become
related. And that’s “green” as in growing popular during times of great social
things, not “green” as in recycling or and economic change, from the Great Farmers markets, like this one in
A Garden Grows in Brooklyn, N.Y.
saving energy. Depression to today. During World War Athens, Ga., allow consumers
to connect directly with local
Green industry businesses include II, American families grew 80 million farmers like Todd Lister (left) of
landscape designers, arborists, irrigation pounds of food in Victory Gardens, Veri Best Farm. A rising interest
experts and retail nursery owners. in locally grown foods has made “Urban agriculture” doesn’t get much more “urban” than New York City. One
which people planted across the country
farmers markets and community of the most densely populated, concrete and asphalted cities on Earth is home to more than 600
Employees run the gamut from career to help ease the strain on the nation’s gardens popular across the community gardens – and that’s down from nearly 1,700 during the 1980s. Over the past 35
horticulturists working at diversified food supply. This meant more food for country.
years, CAES alum John Ameroso (BSA – Agronomy, ’68) has had a hand in the soil at, “oh, a couple
landscape companies to firemen the troops. Victory Gardens represented
hundred” of them. Ameroso started his career as New York City’s first agricultural Extension agent
who work a seasonal second job as nearly 44 percent of the country’s entire
in 1976. He had recently completed a two-year commitment in Vietnam as part of the International
landscapers. food supply during the war, according
Voluntary Service helping farmers with small vegetable and animal production and rice irrigation
“It’s beyond just cutting people’s to the New York Restoration Project. and home and community
systems. He found IVS through CAES agronomy professor Jack Perkins, who Ameroso said “got me
grass,” said Todd Hurt, the Center’s Today, roughly 15 percent of the world’s gardening in Georgia.
in my career” by handing him a brochure about the organization one day in class.
training coordinator. “These people food is grown in urban areas, including “People want fresher fruits and in his area and has also noticed a
Today, after more than three decades working in
Amanda Swennes
are professionals and have a highly backyard, rooftop and balcony gardens, vegetables and want to know where their growing interest in raised bed gardening.
Extension, he sees urban community gardens as oases
specialized knowledge of what they’re according to USDA. food is coming from,” Hammond said. “Raised bed gardens have many
of fresh produce in what is otherwise a city of “food
doing.” During the current economic “Origin seems to be more important than benefits,” he said. “You can easily
deserts”— areas with fast-food chains and corner stores
To help the green industry be recession, Sheldon Hammond, the organic right now. People want to know grow vegetables in a six-by-twelve plot
but no supermarket. Surrounded by low-rises and housing
successful in a competitive market, the agriculture and natural resources the farmer they’re buying from, and some and plant things like squash that will
projects, the Hattie Carthan Community Garden in Brooklyn’s
Center administers two professional program development coordinator for are even interested in growing their own replenish themselves throughout the
traditionally low-income Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood
certification courses: The Georgia UGA Cooperative Extension’s Northwest food. I don’t see the momentum on that summer.” And, raised beds don’t have the
has 43 members who tend individual plots of lettuce,
Certified Landscape Professional District, has noticed an increased slowing down.” Hammond attributes the same nematode and weed problems as
collards, tomatoes and beans: “simple foods,” as the
program and the Georgia Certified interest in local foods increased popularity of locally grown traditional gardens. They’re also easier to For more than 30 years, John Ameroso (right)
garden’s vice president and market project director, Yonnette worked with community garden leaders like
Plant Professional certificate. Both are foods to the economy and an increased maintain for the elderly or people who
Fleming, calls them. They also host a new farmers market Yonnette Fleming (left) to create oases of fresh
voluntary programs officially awareness of food safety. have a hard time bending and kneeling.
on Saturdays, which distributed more than 20,000 pounds of produce for Brooklyn, N.Y. residents.
recognized by the Georgia In metro areas, there’s a renewed Although Morgan spends about 75
aire
food to the surrounding community during the 2009-2010 season. Produce for the market is grown
Brad H
Department of Agriculture. interest in community gardens and percent of his time helping homeowners
in 10 garden plots and the greenhouse, which Ameroso provided expert advice for building, as well
The Center also offers pesticide farmers markets on both the county and the rest assisting local green industry
as in milk crates, boxes, containers, old dresser drawers and even on the roof of the chicken coops.
applicator and safety trainings, and municipal levels, as well as with professionals, the demand for information
“We grow lettuce, eggplants, bitter melon, collards,
including materials geared non-profit organizations. Several cities can often be overwhelming. That’s
bok choy, heirloom tomatoes, peppers, peanuts, garlic,
specifically toward Hispanic have set aside sections of parkland where Master Gardeners come in. A
potatoes, Swiss chard and broccoli,” Fleming said.
landscape workers. These programs for community gardens. Non-profit volunteer force trained in a broad range
The market also has a new alternative distribution
provide employees with greater organizations are using available of horticulture topics, they help agents
program similar to Meals on Wheels that makes weekly
knowledge, which can give companies plots at churches and shelters. In extend their reach in the community.
deliveries to 35 seniors living within a mile of the garden.
a stronger reputation. DeKalb County alone there are “Master Gardeners are involved in
The basket contains five varieties of fresh-grown produce
Amanda Swennes
Extension agents also help their local somewhere between 50 and 75 everything we do, down to answering
plus recipes, herbs and an occasional half carton of eggs
green industry businesses maintain their community gardens, including phones and e-mails, talking to office
from the garden’s flock of 20 chickens.
certifications and provide employee those at 26 county parks and 15 visitors, being speakers at public and
The Added Value Red Hook Community Farm Across Brooklyn, located next to an industrial park
safety training. senior centers. civic groups, writing brochures, talking to in Brooklyn, N.Y. supplies local residents and
restaurants with more than 60 fresh vegetable and overlooking an IKEA, is the Added Value Red Hook
“We try to let them know how to James Morgan, an urban the media and teaching,” Peiffer said.
varieties every year. Community Farm. Ameroso helped start the farm in 2003
get involved in the state’s green industry horticulture and ag agent in While Extension agents in urban
and serves on the board of directors. Planted in soil spread over an abandoned baseball field and
association and stay on top of current Dougherty County, knows of at counties may not deal with row crops,
asphalt parking lot, the 1.2 acre garden produces between 60 and 80 varieties of vegetables a year.
issues and continuing ed opportunities,” least nine community gardens corn and cows on a daily basis like some
The produce is sold through farmers markets and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture), as well
said Jennifer Davidson, a Muscogee of their rural counterparts, their primary
as in six local restaurants.
County agent. Keeping their pesticide mission remains the same: teach people
“This isn’t a typical 9-to-5 job — there are long days and nighttime meetings — but every day
licenses current is an ongoing process. how to grow things, solve problems
John Whiddon (left), UGA Cooperative Extension agent in Brooks County, helped residents at a is different,” he said. “People feel like this farmer stuff is simple, but it’s a science. Even in the
“If you spray another person’s lawn for and make the best-informed decisions
residential alcohol and drug rehab center (Bridges of Hope) rebuild their small therapy garden. city, you have to know about soil pH, nutrition and fertilizer.”
a fee, you’ve got to be certified by the “The garden helps us keep our doors open,” said center manager Karen Mitchell (right). “And our possible about the environment we live
Although he’s supposed to be officially retired, Ameroso still spends his days advising local
state,” she said. vegetables taste a whole lot better that the ones from the supermarket.” in.
civic organizations, community gardens and the city’s urban farming network about the ins and
outs of profitable, sustainable urban agriculture.
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L ucy Reid knows her Coca-
Cola products. Even before the
sharp crack of a tab breaking
into a Coke® can or the snap of a
Powerade® bottle being opened
fills the air, she knows what
those beverages are made of
— their ingredients, nutritional
values, packaging and even their
regulatory requirements.
While at-home baristas
can mix drinks like tea with
vitamin C and honey for their
own consumption, companies
that manufacture beverages or
foods for sale don’t have that
luxury. Ingredients have to be
approved by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration for use
or demonstrated to be safe by
experts before mixing them with
each other. This practice helps
keep food in the United States
safe — and Reid hopping.
Reid (BSHE – Experimental
Foods, ‘82, MS – Food Science,
‘84) is the director of scientific
and regulatory affairs (SRA)
for Coca-Cola Refreshments.
Her life revolves around
science, regulations, beverages,
communications, family and
Georgia football.
Tapping into the world of Coke ® By Stephanie Schupska
Photos by Stephen Morton Continued on next page
Food science alum keeps beverages tasty and safe
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For about 20 years, she spent her
Stephanie Schupska
Coke, continued from previous page 4-H communication skills, I wouldn’t be Elizabeth likes the “huge polar bear in
where I am today. And that’s what has football seasons in the land of the the Coca-Cola store,” she said.
been really exciting about coming back Longhorns. And while she and her
Her team is responsible for making husband Bob, who left his alma mater’s
to Georgia and reconnecting with 4-H
sure “our products, labels, claims and
ingredients we’re using comply with
and UGA.” territory “kicking and screaming,” miss
Houston and the many memories their
Finding Food
federal regulations, which, for the most
part, are FDA regulations,” she said. “4-H is what prepared
family made in Texas, Reid is glad to be Science
back in her home state.
They monitor what goes on at the While Herschel Walker was leading
“This past year, my children got their
FDA, working through trade associations me for my job here at UGA football through its glory days,
picture made with Russ (Uga VII’s brother
to have Coca-Cola’s voice heard on Reid was walking the halls as an
federal initiatives like food labeling and
Coke. Without my 4-H and temporary UGA mascot). Now I get
undergraduate in experimental foods
to introduce them to [where I grew up].”
in the College of Family and Consumer
nutrition claims. communication skills, I She hopes both Elizabeth, 10, and her
Sciences. Through that program, she
son Charlie, 8, will be involved in 4-H
wouldn’t be where I am as they get older. Right now, their days
studied food and nutrition. But that
Adding
career path wasn’t exactly what she
today. And that’s what has revolve around schoolwork and sports.
wanted to do with her life.
vitamin D been really exciting about
They also have something many kids
only dream about: A refrigerator full of
And then she discovered food
science.
From Reid’s office located within Coca-Cola products in their basement.
Coca-Cola headquarters’ vast Atlanta
coming back to Georgia Lucy doesn’t let them crack a can of
“Dr. John Powers came and lectured
in one of my experimental foods classes,”
complex, she can see a view of the and reconnecting with 4-H Coke® whenever they want to, but they
she said. “That’s when I knew this is what
entrance and the multi-storied North still think it’s pretty cool that their mom
I had been looking for.” Powers was key
American wing. Her office is filled with and UGA.” works at Coca-Cola.
in both founding and recruiting students
paper, binders, tacked-up product labels, “I like it when my mom brings home
family photos and a collection of empty ~Lucy Reid new products for us to try,” Charlie said. Continued on next page
bottles ranging from Coke Zero™, her
drink of choice, to Sokenbicha®, a new
Lucy Reid thumbs through her set of the Code of Federal Regulations before finding the entry for
unsweetened blended tea drink from vitamin D. On the corkboard behind her are labels used for different Coca-Cola packaging.
Japan.
After talking about her first days with
Coca-Cola, she hefts a stack of the Code “Once we started looking at the grade, she made a move toward both
of Federal Regulations onto her desk. It regulations, we realized we would have through her county 4-H program.
guides her scientific and regulatory affairs to file a food additive petition with the “I always knew I wanted to do
work, and a box arrives with a new set of FDA,” she said. It usually takes a few something with food, but I didn’t know
the multivolume book every year. years for food additive petitions to go anything about food science,” she said.
After a few minutes of flipping, she through the system. But after a year of “4-H played a critical role in all of this. I
finds the entry for vitamin D, which was consideration and research, the FDA went to every leadership camp. And my
part of her first great achievement with approved the request. project (for district project achievement)
Coca-Cola. “We had the first national brand of was dairy foods.”
Reid’s Coca-Cola journey first took orange juice with vitamin D,” she said. Her last year in 4-H, as a UGA
her to Houston, Texas, in 1988 and the “That was exciting. That was a regulatory freshman, her project on foods and
fruit-juice-filled world of Minute Maid, success and a win for consumers.” nutrition gave her a first place finish at
which was already selling orange juice the state level and allowed her to master,
with added calcium. “If people didn’t like the highest achievement for a 4-H’er.
milk or if they were lactose intolerant,
here was another source of calcium,” she
4-H Beginnings Reid spent three summers as a
counselor at Rock Eagle 4-H Center, and
said. Reid’s interest in food started way just last summer she took her daughter
But to help with absorption, calcium before she attended UGA or helped add Elizabeth there to watch the Native
needs vitamin D. At the time, vitamin vitamin D to orange juice. City life also American pageant.
D was only approved for limited use in had its draws for the girl growing up on a “4-H is what prepared me for my job
foods, not juice beverages. Mitchell County peanut farm. So in fifth here at Coke,” she said. “Without my
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Coke, continued from previous page Intergovernmental Task Force on Fruit
and Vegetable Juices as part of the U.S.
“Every time we do
delegation led by the FDA and USDA.
to UGA’s Department of Food Science
“All the major juice companies had a a promotion on our
and Technology, and with that lecture,
representative there,” she said. “We had
he hooked a new student and changed
a five-year timeframe to develop juice
packages, such as a
Reid’s future.
After finishing her experimental foods
standards.” Disney movie, we
With countries like Australia,
degree, she jumped into life as a food
Thailand, Costa Rica, France and others
review the label again to
science graduate student in the then-
named UGA College of Agriculture. Her
in attendance, she said it was like a UN make sure the essential
summit — complete with headphones
coursework in Athens was followed by
and translators. information hasn’t been
peanut research in Griffin. Even now,
food science and technology students
Now she’s involved in Clear on altered.”
Calories, an initiative the American
follow the same path, with some ~Lucy Reid
Beverage Association started in
remaining in Athens to do their research.
support of First Lady Michelle Obama’s
Retired food science and technology
“Let’s Move!” campaign addressing
professor Manjeet Chinnan helped Reid
childhood obesity. Coca-Cola made the
with her peanut processing research and,
commitment to the White House along
when a position as a research coordinator me to Atlanta, and now I’m responsible With everything that she has going on,
with several other companies. They’re
opened up at UGA, worked with her as for scientific and regulatory affairs work the work/life balance, she never shirks
now working with the FDA to comply
she studied black-eyed peas. for all of the U.S. business.” responsibility. She’s always asking what
with federal regulations.
“Knowing her, I thought she would Reid works with a team that includes she can do to help.”
“Part of the commitment was to place
do a good job, and she did,” Chinnan chemists, nutritionists, food scientists and
calorie information on the front of all
said. She strengthened her knowledge scientific and regulatory affairs directors
packaging by February 2012,” she said.
of statistics through her research project,
“and I think that’s one of the reasons she’s
They already had some products with from several different countries. At the One Big Food
with Coca-Cola.”
calories declared on the front packaging,
as Cocal-Cola had previously made
head of that team is Coca-Cola’s chief
scientific and regulatory officer, Rhona Science Family
a global commitment in 2009. “You Applebaum. Today Reid is giving back to another
can look now, and it’s on the front of “We make sure that the products generation of food scientists. She met
Labels and the Coke Zero™ package. And we will we put out are first and foremost safe,” up with UGA food science graduate
Calories continue to do this for all the different Applebaum said, “and that whatever we coordinator Mark Harrison when she was
products we sell.” For 20-ounce drinks say about them anywhere in the world is in Athens for UGA’s Woodruff Lecture.
In 1994, the FDA started requiring and smaller, they’re putting the calories in compliance with local regulations and Harrison was on her graduate committee
nutrition labels on food and beverage contained in the entire bottle. the claims made are substantiated by the when he first started at UGA; now Reid
products. Minute Maid itself had about But it’s not just big projects that facts and science.” guest lectures in his food law class.
600 different types of packaging that require Reid’s label-scrutinizing eye. Reid calls Applebaum the “rock star “I have trouble convincing my
needed labels. “We might have orange “Every time we do a promotion on of scientific and regulatory affairs.” students that food law is actually an
juice in a 64-ounce carton, a 16-ounce our packages, such as a new Disney But Applebaum said that if she’s exciting, dynamic area,” he said. “Lucy
carton and a 10-ounce bottle,” Reid movie, we review the label again to the rock star, she has “a rock band comes in and emphasizes that.
said. “In my group, I was the scientist make sure essential information hasn’t organization, because I have people like “I tell my students when I meet with
developing all the nutritional information been altered,” she said. Lucy who are helping put out the music. them for the first time that this is the
based on nutrient data we had gathered “In addition to being theoretically most important class that they’ll take. If
from government databases and internal smart, Lucy is practically smart, not just you don’t do something legally and get
laboratory analyses.
“In my team today [at Coca-Cola],
A Rock star Team knowing what needs to be done, but how
it needs to be done,” she said. “She’s also
caught, you’ll be in trouble. Then all the
other stuff doesn’t matter.”
we [still] develop these numbers for our Three years ago, Reid “was extremely ethical. She’s always going to
products.” responsible providing scientific and do what’s right. And she’s funny. She’s
Lucy Reid shows off the nutrition facts for an aluminum bottle of Coke Zero™. It’s part of her
Starting in 2000, Reid flew to job to gather all the information for the bottle’s label, including any facts or claims the beverage regulatory support for the juice business, got a good sense of humor. She’s an
Brazil twice a year for meetings of makes about its contents. not only for North America but also excellent team player. It’s always about
Codex Alimentarius Commission’s globally,” she said. “Then Rhona brought the product or project, not about Lucy.
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Research
U
Dean Kemp
tiny
GA entomologist Dan Suiter believes the pest in soybeans, All said.
the bug arrived here by accident. “In terms of economic damage, we
“We do have one of the world’s busiest “It eats kudzu, set up simple field experiments where we
airports, but we’ll never know how the treat portions of fields and leave portions
which is good, but
invaders
bug first got here,” he said. “When it untreated. Then we carry the crop to yield
it also stinks and
found kudzu here, it found a food source, and record yield differences,” he said.
gets on homes, Data from six of the team’s trials
and it doesn’t have any natural enemies
here that we are aware of. It’s an invasive
which is bad. And revealed a 19 percent reduction in yield
species feeding on an invasive species.” the ominous threat is in untreated plots compared with plots
The bug was first reported in Barrow, that it eats soybeans protected with insecticide. “This is an
Clarke, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, and other legume obvious concern for the potential damage
Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton crops.” these insects may cause on soybean,” he
counties. It can now be found in 78 said.
~ Phillip Roberts, UGA entomologist
counties as far south as Dooly County. It All and Roberts continue to search for
has also been found in Alabama, North other ways to reduce the insect’s impact
and South Carolina and is expected to on soybean and other Georgia-grown
arrive in Tennessee soon. Although not a major crop in legume crops. “It’s a true bug, but with
Kudzu-eating pest “We recently had a gentleman from
Atlanta call us to say the bugs were
Georgia, All calls soybeans the “third
most important crop” in the world. “As
needle-like mouthparts,” Roberts said.
“It feeds on stems, primarily sucking
munches its way all over the patio plants outside his far as farm crops go, soybean is one of plant sap. The one observation we have
across the South
the major crops of the world, ranking up made is it does not appear to feed on the
there with rice, corn and wheat,” he said. developing pods, thank goodness.”
Top Left: CAES entomologist John All uses a It’s mostly grown in the Midwest, but
sweep net to collect samples of kudzu bugs
As its numbers grow, the bug is
in a soybean field. All sat in wait for the large amounts are also grown in the mid- becoming a homeowner pest, too.
bugs to show up in fields last summer and South and Carolinas. Following in the footsteps of the Asian
was amazed to see them literally appear in While researchers expected the bug lady beetle, it shows up in droves
droves overnight.
Dan Suiter to show up in their fields last summer, and overwinters around homes. “The
By Sharon Dowdy Left: Bean plataspids, pea-sized insect they were still surprised to find it. “I difference is, the bean plataspid doesn’t
immigrants from Asia, are attracted to light- had been watching for it, and one day seem to want to come indoors,” Gardner
colored homes and vehicles.
I couldn’t find it, and the next day they said. It likes to congregate on the sides
were all over the place,” All said. “It of light-colored homes and vehicles. The
33rd floor condominium,” said Wayne literally seemed like they showed up insect is most active in the afternoon and
Gardner, the UGA entomologist tasked overnight in huge numbers.” when temperatures are warm.
with tracking the pest’s march across the All and Roberts’ team also conducted A team of USDA Forest Service
state. a headcount test. They found up to scientists in Athens led by Jim Hanula is
On the UGA campus in Griffin, Ga., 100 kudzu bugs feeding on individual studying the bugs’ long-term effects on
Gardner and his staff are raising kudzu soybean plants. An acre of soybeans kudzu and have recorded a 33 percent
A
bugs in small plastic arenas filled with consists of about 80,000 plants. “If decrease in kudzu yield or dry weight
tiny, smelly immigrant the size of a pea has University of Georgia scientists on kudzu leaves. “In our labs, we’re trying you do the math, that’s a whole lot of after only one year of bug feeding. Hanula
edge. On one hand, it’s a godsend since the bug eats kudzu, Georgia’s most to determine if they die from anything insects,” All said. hopes the bugs’ effect on kudzu will be
prolific weed. On the other hand, it’s bad news since its menu also includes naturally,” he said. UGA scientists are working to cumulative so there will be a lot less
UGA entomologists John All in determine how to control the pest around kudzu infesting forests in the future.“It eats
soybeans and other legumes — plants Georgia farmers rely on for their livelihoods.
Athens and Phillip Roberts in Tifton are homes and whether or not to control it kudzu, which is good, but it also stinks
studying the bugs’ effect on soybeans. on agricultural crops. and gets on homes, which is bad,” Roberts
First spotted in northeast Georgia in the fall of 2009, the bean plataspid (Megacopta All and Roberts established field
All conducted a sort of kudzu-bug’s said. “And the ominous threat is that it eats
cribraria) is a native of southeast Asia. The insect is also called the lablab bug and trials to determine whether it’s more soybeans and other legume crops.”
favorite foods test using kudzu, soybeans,
globular stink bug because of the chemical odor it releases when threatened. Here in field peas and peanuts. “It seems to like economical to apply pesticides for the
Georgia, it’s simply referred to as the kudzu bug. soybeans as much as kudzu,” he said. “It pest or leave the fields untreated. Trials The UGA team collaborated with the
will get on the other legumes, but doesn’t conducted during 2010 revealed several U.S. Forest Service, Georgia Department
seem to like them nearly as much.” viable treatment options for controlling of Agriculture and USDA APHIS-PPQ.
14 • Southscapes • Spring 2011 Spring 2011 • Southscapes • 15
Research Research
Killing the Cannon, an assistant professor with the
UGA Center for Food Safety in Griffin,
Get a Whiff of This World Class Grass an important characteristic for a soccer
field. It is widely used to create American
“Cruise Ship Virus” Ga.
Approximately 60 percent of
Trained wasps respond to
specific scents
UGA TifSport won out as the turf of
choice at the 2010 World Cup
football fields across the Southeast and
golf courses around the world.
Hand sanitizer could reduce stomach Soccer Tournament
American cases of foodborne illness “Wayne Hanna’s reputation as a
bug cases are caused by the norovirus, which is Story and photos by Brad Haire
world-class turfgrass breeder is really
O
linked to uncooked foods like salads, deli Story and photo by Brad Haire unmatched,” said J. Scott Angle, CAES
By Sharon Dowdy
ver the years, Glen Rains and his
meats, fresh produce and raw oysters. wasps have received both national dean and director. “And TifSport being
A ll-you-can-eat pizza, sunsets
over an ocean horizon, relaxing on
the lido deck – these are typical cruise
The virus-killing hand sanitizer
developed by CAES food scientists has its
roots in research done by UGA Center
and international media attention. But
when National Geographic called, he T he World Cup is the premier stage
for the world’s most popular sport:
soccer. The most recent tournament was
used at this type of prestigious event is
another example of how the innovations
and technologies we’re developing in
was excited to get back under the lights.
ship vacation memories. One memory for Food Safety director Michael Doyle “As a scientist, I felt like National held last summer in South Africa. The Georgia are being appreciated and used
vacationers don’t want to make is being and assistant research scientist Tong Geographic’s interest would focus more players who stepped onto the pitch at the around the world.”
quarantined in their cabin because a Zhao. Doyle and Zhao created a similar on the science of things rather than Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban dug To create TifSport, Hanna took the
stomach virus has spread across the ship. formulation for use as a fresh produce just the novelty of this project, which is their cleats into TifSport, a bermuda grass germplasm of a cold-tolerant bermuda
A hand sanitizer created by University wash. Many times more powerful than something I’m much more interested in,” released in 1997 by Wayne Hanna while grass and irradiated it — a practice
of Georgia scientists could reduce the commercially available chlorine-based said Rains, a biological and agricultural he was a crop and soil science professor used in plant breeding to alter plant
number of stomach bugs on land and at antimicrobials, the wash is licensed to Think of it like a metal detector for scents: The characteristics — to get a finer grass
engineer on UGA’s Tifton campus. with the UGA College of Agricultural and
“Wasp Hound” relies on wasps’ keen sense of
sea by killing the norovirus, which is the the maker of FIT Fruit and Vegetable In May 2009, a film crew traveled smell to detect the presence of anything from Environmental Sciences and a research texture. This yielded 57 fine-textured
leading cause of acute gastroenteritis, Wash through an agreement between to Tifton to interview Rains and film his corpses to chemicals, according to Glen Rains. geneticist with the U.S. Department bermuda grasses that were grown and
or stomach flu, in the United States. the UGA Research Foundation Inc. research, which conditions wasps to of Agriculture, Agricultural Research tested. A dozen years later, TifSport was
Commonly called the “cruise ship virus” and HealthPro Brands Inc., FIT’s parent detect various scents, like those released Service. born.
for the public attention it gets when it company. by a stressed plant or even a corpse. “We’re pleased that a turfgrass Since 1983, Hanna has released
sickens hundreds or even thousands of UGA has submitted a patent Using sugar water to train the wasps developed in Georgia, in Tifton, was four turfgrass varieties: the popular
cruise passengers, far more outbreaks application for the norovirus-killing hand to associate scents with food, six years used,” Hanna said. “We work hard to do TifEagle, TifSport, TifBlair and, recently,
are actually associated with hospitals, sanitizer, which could be available to ago Rains developed a machine called such broad testing over many areas in TifGrand. He’s also been working with
nursing homes, schools, daycares consumers by the summer of 2011. the Wasp Hound. This portable “nose” our breeding program, and our releases Brian Schwartz, a crop and soil science
and food, said project leader Jennifer monitors the behavior of wasps trained to do well in many parts of the world.” assistant professor on the UGA Tifton
respond to a particular scent. TifSport was bred to be rugged, campus, since 2009 to develop new and
better turfgrasses that are more stress-
Stanley Leary
The Wasp Hound is made from a Hanna said. The dark green grass is dense
The Wasp Hound connects to software that
3-inch pipe that’s 10 inches long. A fan turns data from “sniffy” to scientific. and disease-resistant, tolerates cold and and drought-tolerant.
and a Web camera fit over one end. does well in many environments and TifSport is licensed by the University
Inside, a tray places four or five wasps “I lost some of that interest when I soil types. And, it holds up well and of Georgia Research Foundation Inc.
over a pinhole in the removable white went to college, but have found that I recovers quickly from a lot of foot traffic,
cap that covers the other end. am still just as interested in why insects
The fan sucks air through the pinhole. behave the way they do and how they
If the scent they’ve been trained to sense odors as I was when I was a kid,”
recognize wafts through, the wasps he said.
crowd around the pinhole. If the scent’s In the future, the Wasp Hound could
not there, they just hang out. be used to help find traces of dead
The camera sends an image to bodies, sniff out dangerous chemicals
software that analyzes the amount of and even detect bombs or biological
dark space the wasps create around the weapons.
pinhole, giving a more objective view
and answer to their behavior. Rains and co-inventor Joe Lewis, a retired
Wayne Hanna’s TifSport
As a kid, Rains did his 4-H project on USDA Agricultural Research Service bermuda grass, developed
how fire ants lay chemical trails to find entomologist, are working with the on the UGA Tifton campus
food and believes his wasp research has Georgia Centers of Innovation to attract in 1997, covered the pitch
at Moses Mabhida Stadium
Jennifer Cannon (above), an assistant professor with the UGA Center for Food Safety in Griffin,
brought him full circle. investors and market the Wasp Hound as in Durban, South Africa,
Ga., led a project to develop a hand sanitizer that kills norovirus, a.k.a. the “cruise ship virus,” an alternative scent-detection device. during the 2010 World Cup.
which sickens thousands of people every year. Continued on next page
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Student Spotlight
Courtesy of Phillip Stice
Practical, but priceless
Internships give students experience,
employment opportunities
By Sarah Lewis
I n the College of Agricultural and
Stephanie Schupska
Environmental Sciences, the dean
promises students one thing: enrichment During a three-month internship at Tiger Mountain Vineyards, Phillip Stice learned about running a successful winemaking business first-hand, from
opportunities. The Deans’ Promise the field to the tasting room.
encourages students to take advantage
of experiences they may only have while that operates 24 hours a day, seven days Stevenson agrees that classroom researching the college’s website and
they’re in college, including internships, a week, 365 days a year and that has knowledge helped him in the grain discovering the Winegrowers Association
study abroad and service-learning and exported 300 million bushels every year business. of Georgia. Even before his internship,
research opportunities. for the past three years. I was able to “Even though the internship was in he was able to explore his interest in
Austin Suggs, a senior majoring in learn the logistics of how a plant that size maintenance, it was still economics. If learning about wine in another way – by
agricultural communication, interned operates.” something is not running, you are losing studying abroad. Stice took a course in
at Dow AgroSciences in summer 2010. money. For the plant to run efficiently enology and viticulture in Cortona, Italy
Suggs worked as a southeastern territory and keep costs down, you’ve got to and was able to visit different vineyards
sales representative, visiting farmers and A Vineyard Education understand economics,” Stevenson said. overseas.
dealers throughout Georgia, Alabama Phillip Stice (BSA – Biological Stice’s horticulture background “I’ve had employers tell me that if
and the Florida panhandle to discuss and Sciences, ‘10) spent a summer interning allowed him to understand the vineyard’s they see a resume without internship
promote PhytoGen cotton. at Tiger Mountain Vineyards in Tiger, plants and how to care for them. experience, that’s one of the first
“I was told what I was expected Ga. Stice lived at the vineyard for three “My horticulture classes prepared ones they throw out,” Suggs said. “I
to accomplish and they cut me loose months, working in the fields, crush pad me with knowledge about the soils, root recommend [doing] one summer or one
on my own,” Suggs said. “I was really and tasting room with the customers. systems and nutrients affecting grape semester in an internship. Anything like
treated like a full-time sales employee Scott Angle, dean and director of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and “Making wine is easy. Making great vines and the scientific aspect of the that is invaluable.”
and not an intern, and I thought that was Environmental Sciences, talks to (left to right) Andrew Stevenson, Austin Suggs and Phillip Stice wine is very hard,” Stice said. “Actually career,” Stice said. “A lot of chemistry CAES dean and director J. Scott
about their internships and career plans.
great.” getting hands-on and working in the goes into winemaking and that can be Angle agrees that the experiences and
vineyard really gave me a good base for a intimidating to people who don’t know knowledge students gain from working in
Maintenance and “Internships give companies and businesses a career in wine.” science.”
Stice found his internship by
real-world settings can open the door to
new opportunities.
Management chance to test ride candidates. With the economy and From Intern to Employee
Andrew Stevenson, a senior majoring Having an agricultural background
in agricultural business, interned at recession, companies are being more selective, and and education helped prepare Suggs,
Where are they now?
an Archer Daniels Midland plant in Stevenson and Stice for their internships.
internships make a difference. Most students with
Louisiana where raw commodities “I felt that my overall classroom Andrew Stevenson – Archer Daniels Midland offered Stevenson a full-time job
are shipped all over the world to be internship experiences are getting the jobs they want. knowledge and the fact that I have a very at a plant in Arkansas, a year prior to his graduation.
used in food, beverage, industrial and solid agronomic background gave me an
I encourage every student to do an internship.” Austin Suggs – Dow AgroSciences offered Suggs another internship for the
animal feed markets. Stevenson worked upper hand over the other interns,” Suggs
summer of 2011.
in maintenance for grain terminal said. “Also, being able to get up and
operations management. ~ J. Scott Angle speak [in front of a group] is something Phillip Stice – Stice is working in California and Argentina at vineyards during
Dean and Director
“I learned both the management that I’ve learned as an agricultural their harvest.
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
and maintenance sides of the plant,’’ communication major and in my years as
Stevenson said. “I worked in a plant a 4-H member.”
18 • Southscapes • Spring 2011 Spring 2011• Southscapes • 19Teaching
T
he hungry calf almost stole the milk bottle from Hanna Grace as she and her
daddy, Stacey Abell, fed it through the fence, but Hanna Grace held on tight.
The Abells, and the calf, were at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus
Animal and Dairy Science First Grade Field Day. But this wasn’t Stacey’s first visit to
the campus. “A long time ago,” when he was a Tift County grade-schooler, he came
to field days on the campus, too. Returning with his daughter to learn about and see
many of the same things was “kind of neat,” he said.
The field day, held every spring, began on the campus 23 years ago. Since then,
more than 15,000 first-graders – or virtually every Tift County first-grader in the past
two decades – have attended the event, said Joe West, who spearheaded the event in
1987 when he first came to Tifton as a UGA animal scientist.
Hanna Grace Abell and her dad, “At that time, we were getting call after call from schools that wanted to come out
Stacey, feed a hungry calf at the 2010 to see the baby calves at the dairy. But instead of it just pretty much being a petting
UGA Tifton campus Animal and Dairy
zoo, we decided to organize it better and add a real education session,” said West,
Science First Grade Field Day.
now the UGA Tifton campus assistant dean.
In addition to feeding dairy calves, the kids now learn how a real dairy works and
get to see and learn about fish, cattle, goats, horses and freshly-hatched baby chicks.
Prior to the field day, teachers use lesson plans developed by the UGA College of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to go along with the day’s activities. At the
end of the field day, teachers get additional materials, including coloring books and
short stories about agriculture.
Another Field, A Different Day
In the late 1990s, sitting around various “breakfast tables” in Tift County, Benjie
Baldree and several local young farmers discussed how sad it was that so many kids
really didn’t know where their food comes from. Their solution? Start a small program
to get local school kids on farms and show them working agriculture. They tried to
Children get hands-on lessons about start the “something” on privately owned land, but couldn’t get it off the ground, said
agriculture and animals, like these
Baldree, a UGA Tifton campus research coordinator.
baby chicks, during field day programs
on the UGA Tifton campus. Then, in spring 2001, with a group of 50 Omega, Ga., third graders as their guinea
pigs, Baldree and a few other farm experts set up a half dozen learning stations at the
Having a
UGA Tifton Rural Development Center. Agricultural and Environmental Awareness
Day was born, another program targeted to local school kids.
Now, twice a year (once in the spring and once in the fall) dozens of school buses
filled with more than 1,000 students swarm the campus’s arboretum, where they see
as many as 50 learning stations covering subjects from peanuts to poultry, solar panels
Field Day
to snakes and pretty much everything else between the dirt and the sky, all with a
focus on agricultural production and environmental stewardship.
“It has gone well beyond my wildest imagination,” Baldree said. The whole event
is designed to help students meet standards for third- and fourth-grade proficiencies
in science and is a valuable learning tool for teachers, said Stephanie Estes, a fourth-
grade teacher at Omega Elementary, at the recent fall Agricultural and Environmental
Awareness Day. “This is our one field trip a year; and as long as they keep having it,
Cook County third-graders learn about
vegetable farming, particularly peppers this is where we will choose to come,” she said.
UGA Tifton campus educates
and tomatoes, at the 2010 spring Though the UGA Tifton campus is geared toward higher education and research,
edition of the UGA Tifton Agricultural programs like these that reach much younger students fit perfectly into the campus
and Environmental Awareness Day.
mission, West said. “We are simply in the business of education. These two programs
local grade-schoolers about farm life and the people who dedicate their time are a window for these kids to see how their
food and fiber are made. You never know what positive things can happen by just
reaching out and sharing this.”
Story and photos by Brad Haire
20 • Southscapes • Spring 2011 Spring 2011 • Southscapes • 21Lead Dogs
60s
1960s
Gary Fagan, BSA –
70s
1970s
Rick Jasperse, BSA – Food
80s
1980s
Glenn Smith, BSA – Ag Teri Hamlin, BSA –
Agriculture, ’68, of Spokane, Science, ’79, MAL – Ag Economics, ’82, is the vice Agriculture, ’83, Ph.D. –
Washington retired in 2010 Leadership, ’03, was elected president of operations for Education, ’98, is currently
from USDA. Georgia State Representative, Laser Pharmaceuticals, a horticulture specialist in
District 12. He is a retired a 55-year-old, family- agriculture education for
Extension agent from Pickens owned specialty branded the Georgia Department
County. pharmaceutical firm based of Education in Athens, as
70s
What’s one thing about your field in Greenville, S.C. Glenn
and his wife Terri continue to
well as an adjunct professor
in the CAES Agricultural
that you wish everyone knew? 1970s reside in Macon, Ga. Their Leadership, Education and
80s
son Josh is a senior at UGA Communication department.
Compiled by April Sorrow and Amanda E. Swennes Hiram Larew, BSA –
Horticulture, ’75, received the
1980s majoring in Recreation and
Leisure Studies (Education),
She is the UGA Sigma Alpha
advisor, serves on the Georgia
Legacy Alumni Award from their second son Matthew Farm to School Alliance
Oregon State University (MS is a sophomore majoring executive board and USDA
’77, Ph.D. ‘81) in recognition in Biological Sciences in Nutrition Gardens advisory
of his work in international UGA’s CAES, and their board and is the Georgia
agricultural development daughter Mary Margaret is Green Industry coordinator
and in poetry. Larew’s award a high school junior with for the junior certification
cites his leadership at USDA plans to continue the UGA program.
and USAID to promote food legacy. Glenn recently
Stephanie Schupska
Stephanie Schupska
UGA Photo Service
security, improve food aid completed service on UGA’s Phillip Edwards, BSA – Ag
April Sorrow
nutrition, jump-start youth Alumni Association board Economics, ’84, of Ocilla,
Courtesy of Gary Black
development programs of directors. He and the is the county Extension
and build higher education family are active members at coordinator in Irwin County.
Animal manures are a resource, Food shortages and starvation Ag communication does People occasionally ask me, capacity both overseas and Ingleside Baptist Church in
not a waste. Land application are always closer than the NOT involve talking to cows “So your major is about here at home. He currently Macon. Jody T. Strickland, BSAE – Ag
of animal manures to grow general public realizes. A and corn. It’s a niche area of studying the economics of Gary Black, BSA – Engineering, ’86, took a new
directs the Center for
crops, when done correctly, single point mutation in either communication that helps cows and chickens?” It always Agricultural Education, position with Weyerhaeuser
International Programs within Hank Griffeth, BSA –
is great for soil quality, soil a major food source or a share the story of agriculture makes me laugh because I ’80, is Georgia’s newly as the U.S. Timberlands
USDA’s National Institute of Horticulture, ‘83, has
fertility and water quality. pathogen can result in a plant with those who matter most: wish people understood how elected Commissioner of Acquisitions and Divestiture
Food and Agriculture, and been serving as acting
University of Georgia disease epidemic, and the result consumers and politicians. It’s interlinked into society the Agriculture. Black began Manager in 2010. She has
has guided programs in Iraq, vice president of academic
Extension works closely with can spell disaster. Only through something that everyone in the field of agricultural economics his career in 1980 with 19 years of experience
Armenia, Afghanistan, South affairs for Central Georgia
livestock producers to teach constant vigilance and research agriculture field can participate truly is. For example, increases Georgia Farm Bureau, with Weyerhaeuser. She
Africa, the Congo, Nicaragua, Technical College in addition
them how to properly land are we able to feed our nation in. We must be advocates for in demand for alternative where he supervised the also serves on the Georgia
Haiti and elsewhere. Many of to his regular duties as vice
apply their manure to achieve and the world. We are blessed agriculture. fuel sources like ethanol also young farmer leadership Forest Foundation Board
these efforts are carried out president of satellite campus
desired agronomic yield while in the United States with many create an overall increase in development program. of Directors, Georgia FFA
Andrea Gonzalez by Extension experts, teaching operations since November 1.
at the same time protecting the sources of nutritious plants for food prices. While the cows In 1989, he was selected Sponsors Board, Georgia Agri-
Senior, agricultural professors and researchers He lives in Milledgeville.
environment. food, but this is not universally communication and chickens are important, as the president of the Leaders Board of Directors
at American land-grant
true. If I make a wrong Woodstock, Ga. ag economics is much more Georgia Agribusiness and continues to volunteer for
Melony Wilson universities, and Larew’s office
decision in my job as a plant complex and socially integrated Council. He served in that the CAES Alumni Association.
Animal waste specialist works closely with colleagues
Biological and agricultural pathologist, farmers will lose than people realize. role for 21 years. She lives in Perry.
like Dr. Ed Kanemasu, director
engineering money; in many countries, the of the UGA CAES Office of
Elizabeth “Libby” Carter
inability of a plant pathologist Senior, agricultural economics Global Progams, to make sure Continued on next page
to solve a problem rapidly will Jersey, Ga. that U.S. agriculture benefits
result in the death of many from these overseas activities
people. and partnerships. Larew
Phillip Brannen has also received numerous Find us on Facebook and become a friend of the
Extension fruit disease specialist awards for his poetry, UGA CAES Alumni Association.
Plant pathology including the Louisiana Search “Ag Alum.”
Literature poetry prize.
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